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Dukey Treats | 
 enlarge | Artist: George Duke
Label: Heads Up
Category: Music
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 3099
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 3143
UPC: 053361314323
EAN: 0053361314323
ASIN: B001BP4UFO
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Everyday Hero | | • | I Tried to Tell You | | • | A Fonk Tail | | • | Dukey Treats | | • | Listen Baby | | • | Mercy | | • | Somebody Laid It on Us | | • | Creepin' | | • | Right on Time | | • | Sudan | | • | Are You Ready | | • | Images of Us |
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Album Description
Veteran keyboardist and producer George Duke remembers a time when funk was a powerful force not just in popular music but in social discourse. Frequently with a measure of wit and irony, and often with a strong dose of positivity at the core, titans like James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone and other funk icons of the `60s and `70s boldly addressed societal concerns ranging from poverty to racial disharmony to the battle of the sexes. Among the numerous treats on this album are not just the songs themselves but the roster of high-profile personnel helping to bring them to life many of them alumni of Duke's earlier bands and projects. Included on the guest list are bassist Christian McBride, percussionist Sheila E and trumpeter Michael Patches Stuart, to name a few. Along with Duke himself, the vocal crew includes Jonathan Butler, Howard Hewett, Teena Marie, Rachelle Ferrell and more.
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| Customer Reviews:
Great November 18, 2008
Anne Greene
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
Scott Woods (Columbus, Ohio United States)
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
V. tenort (los angeles ca.)
1 out of 1 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
Notasnack (Dallas, Tx)
The Funkmaster is definitely back! It's a mix of funk and jazz. A must have CD for your collection.
Fun Funk! November 6, 2008
Duce (Atlanta, GA)
As his 4th effort on his BPM label, I think it was good for George to go back to funk and fun. It was great hearing Ndugu, Josie, Lynn and Shelia E and it reminded me a lot of "Don't Let Go", "Master of the Game", "Reach for It" and some of his early 70s funk. The extraordinary part of this particular CD is that...again, the arrangements are really superior. Some of the transitions are really fun to listen to because you just don't expect to hear it...i.e., Somebody Laid it On Us, Are you Ready. I absolutely would NOT have thought that Jonathan Butler and Teena Marie would sound great together...yet they do! Again, this is no "Face the Music" which, to me, is George's BEST EVER, but this was a lot of fun to listen to, has some socially conscience material, a lot of old school feeling and great musicianship. Definitely worth the buy!
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