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After his early years with Frank Zappa and then a stint with Cannonball Adderley, George Duke took his in-demand keyboard skills back to Zappa and also to Sonny Rollins and Billy Cobham in the mid-’70s. Duke also recorded six albums under his own name for MPS during this period, and they’ve gone down in history as jazz-funk classics. This sumptuous new set brings back all six albums on seven vinyl LPs: the double album "The Inner Source" plus "Faces in Reflection," "Feel," "The Aura Will Prevail," "Liberated Fantasies" and "I Love the Blues, She Heard Me Cry." Three of those albums brought George to the pop-album charts for the first time, and the totality of this trailblazing music chiseled George Duke’s features into the Mt. Rushmore of fusion. All across the soulful ballads, exploratory jazz pieces and funky jazz-rock cuts on these albums, the star of the show is Duke’s revelatory keyboard work. This is quite a prize to own and spin on vinyl: "The Opening," "Capricorn," "North Beach," "Love Reborn," "Peace," "My Soul," "Feels So Good," "Some Time Ago," "Funny Funk," "Love," "The Once Over," "Rashid," "Chariot," "Look into Her Eyes," "Someday," "Dawn," "For Love," "Malibu," "Don’t Be Shy," "Seeing You," "After the Love" and more from this late, much-loved, internationally admired keyboard master. MPS.