Dukey Treats | 
| Manufacturer: Heads Up
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $8.99
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 9449
Genre: jazz-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 0
ASIN: B001DP4MSW
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 up to date yet retro November 23, 2008
This is one of his finest. It's up to date yet you get those retro vibes from the 70's. Great music.
 Great November 18, 2008
George seems to keep up with previous release by himself. Just what I expected, great. if you like George, you can always buy his new releases, unheard and be satisfied.
 What could have been... November 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This record is a great example of an artist who can still do what they did back in the day but doesn't doesn't want to be known for only that (no matter how good it was) and is straddling the fence now to please any number of audiences.
All the way through this record it sounded like Duke, but not really, pulling his punches, going into the too-smooth bag of tricks. That Duke piled together members of his old 70s collective into the studio to get down does give the record some nostalgic edge, but it ends up being like funky icing on a plain cake. The songs don't really groove, the band does, and that's unfortunate. Everyone's still got the chops, but they're working with material that is either too straight or so self-referential that it sounds like Duke b-sides. Duke has always played with a mutlitude of genres but his best records have always come from a focus on one at a time, maybe inserting apopular single in the mix for kicks (see "Master of the Game", "Muir Woods Suite" or "Reach For It").
And then the last track comes on, "Images of Us", and it's wonderful. A whole record of THAT and I'd have been running in the streets, talking about how Duke has returned from the mountaintop. Unfortunately, you have to go through a record made up of all of the directions that Duke has ever taken us to get to that one, honest track. This isn't a return to form so much as it is an homage to form, and jazz is sick with that mindset these days. I almost wish he hadn't put that last great track on; now I'll just wonder what could have been.
Dukey Treats November 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've alway thought that George Duke is one of the best pianist out there.
Love watching and listening to him play. The CD "Dukey Treats" an excellent CD but, like most if not all CD's I don't like every cut but with George I like most cuts. Next to Chick Corea he is one of my top three pianist.
Keep on doing that voo doo you do so well called music.
I wish he was my big brother and would pass down to me some of his knowledge of chords and technique. He's a Bad Boy.
Funkster November 9, 2008
The Funkmaster is definitely back! It's a mix of funk and jazz. A must have CD for your collection.
|
|
|
