{"product_id":"duke-george-best-of-mps-years-lp-402975917027","title":"George Duke - Best of MPS Years (Gate) [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 Duke and 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. The subsequent albums cut from those sessions still count as a fascinating and essential part of George Duke's life's-work and canon of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"4","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50559964873000,"sku":"402975917027","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/3833\/7576\/files\/4096327-3157279.jpg?v=1763983584","url":"https:\/\/waterloorecords.com\/products\/duke-george-best-of-mps-years-lp-402975917027","provider":"Waterloo Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}