George Duke joined the 67 club two days ago by succumbing to leukemia. If his music's not your thing, but you wouldn't mind a tender bon voyage, skip to the last video. Otherwise, here's a longer goodbye barely belated:
A smooth and sweet and reel cleen version of
Rush Hour/Road Rage
Getting a little sloppy with Stanley Clarke and Herbie Hancock
Going back to School Days - more with Stanley Clarke
Doing their best Bootsy with Dukey Stick!
Reaching Out with the keytar and singing while dealing with everyday physical challenges like unraveling the mic cable
Reaching Out almost twenty years later, moved by the crowd's replacing the backing vox gone from the stage, and integrating audience participation that normally doesn't work for me
Checking the time @4:54 during his Brazilian Love Affair
Talking about working with Miles Davis and playing something he wrote for one of his albums (a better version of the latter below this one)
A better document of Cobra that followed the above into
A Token of His Extreme with Frank Zappa in 1974 in an interesting but annoyingly edited video - his solo @7:30
Reminiscing about the influence of Frank Zappa
Doing King Kong with Jean-Luc last August at Zappanale
Walking one last time with his Dukey Stick and Cubanismo! and Rachelle Ferrell
Promoting his last album, Dreamweaver, released just two weeks ago; talking about having lost his wife last year and what it meant to the creative process; summing up his artistic life; foreshadowing this bittersweet moment
Rush Hour/Road Rage
Getting a little sloppy with Stanley Clarke and Herbie Hancock
Going back to School Days - more with Stanley Clarke
Doing their best Bootsy with Dukey Stick!
Reaching Out with the keytar and singing while dealing with everyday physical challenges like unraveling the mic cable
Reaching Out almost twenty years later, moved by the crowd's replacing the backing vox gone from the stage, and integrating audience participation that normally doesn't work for me
Checking the time @4:54 during his Brazilian Love Affair
Talking about working with Miles Davis and playing something he wrote for one of his albums (a better version of the latter below this one)
A better document of Cobra that followed the above into
A Token of His Extreme with Frank Zappa in 1974 in an interesting but annoyingly edited video - his solo @7:30
Reminiscing about the influence of Frank Zappa
Doing King Kong with Jean-Luc last August at Zappanale
Walking one last time with his Dukey Stick and Cubanismo! and Rachelle Ferrell
Promoting his last album, Dreamweaver, released just two weeks ago; talking about having lost his wife last year and what it meant to the creative process; summing up his artistic life; foreshadowing this bittersweet moment
