The Aura Will Prevail

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Cat No: 0214944MSW

Release Date: 25 February 2022

Label: MPS

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 4029759149446

Genres: Jazz Fusion

Release Date: 21 September 2018

Label: MPS

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 4029759128588

Genres: Jazz Fusion

Description
Reissue of George Duke's classic 1975 jazz-funk-fusion album 'The Aura Will Prevail', featuring Alphonso Johnson, Airto Moreira and Leon "Ndugu" Chancler.

With its intensive quartet, this 1975 recording again mirrors how far Duke, by his own admission, had moved away from the "smug and overly serious jazz musician" and towards a master of fusion, eager to experiment and add a note of humour to the music. With Santana drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, bassist Alphonso "Slim" Johnson, and the Brazilian percussion magician Airto Moriera, Duke designed stunning scenarios in sound which once more reveals him to be one of the synthesizer pioneers.

He paints a fantastic morning atmosphere in Dawn; in Floop the Loop Duke conjures animated, funky tone poems. There is a change of scene as Duke takes up the role of soulful singer on the smooth ballads For Love and Fools. His onetime collaboration with the Mothers of Invention rubs off on Duke's adaptations of Echnidna's Arf and Uncle Remus, and a touch of samba is added to the relaxed tropical magic of Malibu.

Description
MPS head Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer discovered 20 year old George Duke by chance during a concert in San Francisco in 1966. A long partnership developed out of this unexpected meeting, topped off by a series of albums that Duke recorded for MPS during his Zappa phase. This 1975 recording is a reflection in concentrated quartet form of how far Duke had moved away from being, in his own view, "too conservative and serious a jazz musician", and evolved into an inventive and humorous "master of fusion". With Santana drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, bassist Alphonso "Slim" Johnson, and the Brasilian percussion sorcerer Airto Moreira, Duke designs a stunningly cinematic sound scenario that also points to him as one of the pioneers of the synthesizer. He paints a fantastic morning atmosphere in Dawn; in Floop the Loop Duke conjures animated, funky tone poems. There is a change of scene as Duke takes up the role of soulful singer on the smooth ballads For Love and Fools. His onetime collaboration with the Mothers of Invention rubs off on Duke's adaptations of Echnidna's Arf and Uncle Remus, and a touch of samba is added to the relaxed tropical magic of Malibu.
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