George Duke – The Era Will Prevail: The MPS Studio Years 1973-1976 (2015) [Hi-Res]

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Artist: George Duke
Title: The Era Will Prevail: The MPS Studio Years 1973-1976
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: MPS Records
Genre: Jazz, Funk, Soul
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks) / [88.2kHz/24bit]
Total Time: 4:54:11
Total Size: 677 mb / 1.62 gb / 5.05 gb
WebSite: Album Preview

A curious happenstance in 1966 triggered the partnership between MPS head Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and George Duke. Brunner-Schwer was in San Francisco to record the Art van Damme Quintet. After finishing the recording session one evening, he and his team strolled over to a club called the Jazz Workshop. Les McCann was supposed to be playing, but this particular day was his day off. Instead, a 20 year old pianist, still involved in his studies, was performing with his quartet. The music’s freshness so enthralled the German that he set up a recording session on the spot. This encounter between George Duke and Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer in sunny California was both accidental and noteworthy. It turned out to be the jazzy prologue to future events: five years later the American began his fusion-infused sessions for the man from Germany’s Black Forest. These sessions are the theme of this box set with its seven LPs. Some 40 through 45 years after their initial releases, these albums still count as a fascinating and essential part of George Duke’s life’s-work and canon of the genre.

:: TRACKLIST ::

The Inner Source
A1 – Au-Right (03:27)
A2 – Love Reborn (07:25)
A3 – Peace (07:39)
A4 – My Soul (04:37)
B1 – Feels So Good (07:10)
B2 – Manya (03:26)
B3 – Sweet Bite (03:32)
B4 – The Followers (05:15)
C1 – The Inner Source (06:07)
C2 – Life (05:39)
C3 – Some Time Ago (05:00)
C4 – So There You Go (05:18)
D1 – Solus (09:05)
D2 – Nigerian Numberuma (02:49)
D3 – Twenty-Five (04:54)
D4 – Always Constant (06:47)

Feel
E1 – Funny Funk (05:18)
E2 – Love (06:06)
E3 – The Once Over (04:39)
E4 – Feel (05:40)
F1 – Cora Joberge (03:50)
F2 – Old Slipper (05:41)
F3 – Tzina (Theme From The Opera ''Tzina'') (02:01)
F4 – Yana Aminah (04:33)
F5 – Rashid (03:36)
F6 – Statement (01:15)

Faces In Reflection
G1 – The Opening (03:18)
G2 – Capricorn (05:06)
G3 – Piano Solo No. 1 + 2 (02:21)
G4 – Psychosomatic Dung (05:03)
G5 – Faces In Reflection No. 1 (Instrumental) (03:37)
H1 – Maria Tres Filhos (05:09)
H2 – North Beach (06:26)
H3 – Da Somba (06:18)
H4 – Faces In Reflection No. 2 (Vocal) (02:19)

I Love The Blues, She Heard My Cry
I1 – Chariot (02:58)
I2 – Look Into Her Eyes (03:24)
I3 – Sister Serene (04:30)
I4 – That's What She Said (04:29)
I5 – Mashavu (01:48)
I6 – Rokkinrowl (03:25)
J1 – Prepare Yourself (05:26)
J2 – Giantchild Within Us - Ego (06:37)
J3 – Someday (02:40)
J4 – I Love The Blues, She Heard My Cry (05:26)

The Aura Will Prevail
K1 – Dawn (04:54)
K2 – For Love (I Come Your Friend) (04:34)
K3 – Foosh (03:08)
K4 – Floop De Loop (06:43)
L1 – Malibu (04:07)
L2 – Fools (04:29)
L3 – Echidna's Arf (03:33)
L4 – Uncle Remus (05:09)
L5 – The Aura (01:26)

Liberated Fantasies
M1 – Don't Be Shy (02:58)
M2 – Seeing You (04:30)
M3 – Back To Where We Never Left (06:28)
M4 – What The... (00:33)
M5 – Tryin' & Cryin' (05:25)
N1 – I C'n Hear That (05:18)
N2 – After The Love (02:30)
N3 – Tzina (Excerpts From Act II Scene II) (02:30)
N4 – Liberated Fantasies (09:37)

All albums on 180g vinyl remastered and cut from the original master tapes.