George Duke, the genre-leaping keyboard star who rose to prominence in former San Diegan Frank Zappa’s band in the early 1970s, died Monday night in Los Angeles. A multiple Grammy Award-winner, he was ...

Duke was born in San Rafael, California, and studied composition and contrabass at the San Francisco Conservatory, but he would become recognized for his unique keyboard work. In 1969 he released The ...

American jazz-funk legend George Duke arrives in London this month to play his first British dates in five years and his first headline gig here for two decades. Busy in the studio with vocal divas ...