« The Best Of The MPS Years » presents all the classics and highlights of George Duke on the Black Forest label on a single album. A curious event in 1966 triggered the partnership between MPS boss 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 wandered into a club called Jazz Workshop. Les McCann was supposed to play, but that particular day was his day off. Instead, a 20-year-old pianist, still involved in his studies, was performing with his quartet. The freshness of the music captivated the German so much that he set up a recording session on the spot. This meeting between George Duke and Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer in sunny California was both accidental and remarkable. 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 the German Black Forest. The six albums in this series still count as a fascinating and essential part of George Duke's work and the canon of the genre.
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