George Duke

Returning home from a concert performance on May 15, 2010, his car was rear-ended by a drunk driver, causing him a fractured jaw, two shattered teeth, and facial lacerations, which sidelined his career for two months.

In 2014, he produced two songs on Al Jarreau's George Duke tribute album, My Old Friend, No Rhyme, No Reason and Bring Me Joy.

In 2015, he released Future Soul, which spent 11 weeks at number one on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart and was the best-selling contemporary jazz record of 2015.

In August 2015, James made his first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

With Chick Corea by his side, they fused worlds together, a musical brotherhood so deep they called it Return to Forever.

From George Duke to Hancock to McCartney and Jeff Beck, Quincy Jones, Keith Richards, Art Blakey, and Stan Getz.

He spent a lifetime in the pocket with the greatest drummers to ever hold sticks, Williams, Gad, Cobham, and White, the Mount Rushmore of rhythm sections night after night.

He's on his last train to sanity.

All right.

I have a fun project I want to talk about.

So one of my favorite things that you have done is the George Duke Stanley Clark project.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Did Quincy or George Duke have something to do with that? I

think Rod Temperton did.

I don't think this is a Ya rock song.

All the legends work with her.

Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Jerry Butler, Eddie LaVert, Phyllis Hyman, Earl Garner, Billy Paul, Dexter Wanzell, The Temptations, Grover Washington Jr., Rick James, Dirt, George Duke, just everyone.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, so overdue, our guest, the incomparable Gene Carr into Questlove Supreme.

Thank you very much.

This was way after she had had the mastectomy.

And those two nights.

George Duke came to see me.

Stevie came to see me.

So is Michael Ruff, but he's like a top-notch everything guy.

I'm a soul funk guy, so I hired Byron Miller, played bass with George Duke and a bunch of other people.

And a guy called Art Rodriguez was playing drums.

He played with Buzzy Feeton and some more A-list guys, but more on the blues R&B side.

He suffered near fatal injuries and in the process his larynx was crushed, which permanently lowered his voice to the register you hear on this song.

Personnel on this song includes George Duke on the e-piano and clavinet, Ian Underwood on alto sax, and his then-wife Ruth Underwood on the marimba.

It's time to learn a little bit about the state of Montana, folks.

Montana has roughly 1.1 million people, which is about 8.5 million fewer than Los Angeles County.

I think every jazz fusion keyboard player needs to have a keytar era.

You know, George Duke had it, Jan Hammer had it.

It's a statement instrument.

Chick had it, Herbie had it.

Less wobble, more summer.

And firstly, George Benson, then George Duke.

All the Georges for you.

¶¶ Thank you.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh I think a couple of rather special tracks there.

George Benson from the White Rabbit album in 1972 and theme for Summer of 42.

And then George Duke from the Real Bossa Nova compilation and the track Summer Breezing.

Now, though, we've come towards the end of the jazz session with Tony Davenport and RaidersBroadcast.com, and I'm going to play out with something a little bit different.

Y'all talking about a few of your favorite things, huh?

Yeah, I started talking about my love with Stanley Clark and George Duke and Donald Byrd and Bobby Humphrey.

Yo, Stanley Clark, I ain't gonna

lie.