George Duke: Déjà Vu

The legendary keyboardist/composer George Duke revisits the sounds of the golden age of funk and soul on 'Deja Vu'.

Featuring guest performances by trumpeter Nicholas Payton, flutist Hubert Laws and saxophonist Bob Sheppard.

When George Duke made a return trip to the heyday of funk on his 2008 recording, 'Dukey Treats', he reminded his fans and the music press of exactly what made the good old stuff so good.

Duke returns to that same source of inspiration for 'Deja Vu', the album this time revisiting the synthesizer sound that characterized some of his most memorable recordings.

"The whole idea behind Deja Vu was to take a look back at some of the stuff I used to do that was a little more musically challenging," says Duke.

"In some way or another, whatever happened before always comes around again.

It may be a little different, but it will resurface.

That's kind of what this album is - a resurfacing of some ideas I had back in the '70s when I recorded albums with a lot of synthesizers, like Feel and The Aura Will Prevail." Deja Vu is a glance back, but with a very contemporary sensibility - a piece of work that comes together very much in the present, but also conjures up a persistent feeling of something great that came before.

1. A Melody
2. You Touch My Brain
3. What Goes Around Comes Around
4. Bring Me Joy
5. Ripple In Time
6. Oh Really?
7. 6 O'Clock Revisited
8. Come To Me Now
9. Stupid Is As Stupid Does