Jazz Workshop 1966 (Remastered) The George Duke Quartet

• 1 The Second Time Around 05:27
• 2 The Night Has a Thousand Eyes 07:36
• 3 Days of Wine and Roses 05:54
• 4 Jeannine 04:27
• 5 Little Girl Blue 07:06
• 6 Secret Love 07:27
• Total Runtime 37:57

Info for Jazz Workshop 1966 (Remastered)

„This was my first album. It came about as a result of playing at The Jazz Workshop, the then famous jazz club in San Francisco. It went on to become a strip joint. (Well they always said that jazz was brothel music)

I was playing on a Monday Night (the off night for Les McCann who had played all the week before). Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer, the owner of SABA Records, Baldhard G. Falk and another person came to see Les, and decided to stay and see me upon learning that Monday was Les's night off. I didn't know who they were, so I was kinda loose and having a lot of fun. Besides, the house was light.

The year was 1966. At that time I was studying at The San Francisco Conservatory Of Music. They approached me at the break and asked me if I'd like to record an album. Needless to say, I was in a state of shock. Baldhard asked me to give him a call at his office. As fate would have it, I made an appointment, went to see him, and signed an agreement to record one LP for SABA records.

Without a doubt this is the worst record I've ever made. I was quite nervous and had been studying John Coltrane. For some reason I thought all I had to do was play the head of a tune real nice and then proceed to rattle off myriads of notes at high velocity. This did not make for a pleasing result, but it was all I knew. Actually I have tapes that predate this LP that are far superior, because I was relaxed and not in a studio environment.

The record took six hours to record. We did three tunes a day in three hours. On the record was a young bass player named John Heard (I grabbed him after he left John Hendricks) whom I worked with for many years.“ (George Duke)

George M. Duke, piano
David L. Simmons, trumpet
John W. Heard, bass
George R. Walker, drums

Recorded at Golden Gate Studio San Francisco, January 1966
Recorded by Willi Fruth
Produced by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer

Digitally remastered

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