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Face the Music (George Duke album)

Face the Music is the 26th studio album by American jazz musician George Duke. The album peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and No. 7 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart. It reached No. 24 on the Billboard Top Independent Albums chart.

Critical reception

Lucy Tauss of JazzTimes favourably found "Keyboardist/producer George Duke inaugurates his new label, Big Piano Music, with Face the Music, an album filled with zesty, free-spirited, funk-fusion jams."

The Associated Press praised the album saying, "Duke, whose career spans nearly four decades, has a knack for timeless music, combining jazz, Brazilian jazz, funk R&B, even some gospel. Here, he enlists upright bass impresario Christian McBride, guitarist Jef Lee Johnson, drummer John "Lil' John" Roberts and Lenny Castro on percussion to accentuate his crisp, jazz-funk piano compositions. The entire disc is a winner..."

Buddy Blue of the San Diego Union-Tribune named Face the Music as one of his albums of the year.

Track listing

Personnel

Production

  • George Duke – producer
  • Erik Zobler – recording, mixing
  • Stefeniah McGowan – assistant engineer
  • Wayne Holmes – technical matters
  • Doug Sax – mastering
  • Robert Hadley – mastering
  • The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California) – mastering location
  • Corine Duke – production coordinator
  • Bobby Holland – band photography
  • Jeff Lyons – art direction, all other photography
  • James Goodlow – hair stylist
  • Lalette Littlejohn – make-up
  • Herb Cohen for Consolidated Productions – management

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