Face the Music (George Duke album)
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| Face the Music | ||||
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| Released | September 3, 2002 | |||
| Studio | Le Gonks, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 1:10:52 | |||
| Label | Big Piano Music | |||
| Producer | George Duke | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Face the Music is the 26th studio album by American jazz musician George Duke.[2] 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.[3]
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."[4]
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..."[5]
Buddy Blue of the San Diego Union-Tribune named Face the Music as one of his albums of the year.[6]
