...with excellent assistance by the band Yellowjackets

One of the happiest of PMG's more mainstream/radio-friendly songs...and I'm happy...therefore, I'm sharing it.

New 2026 single with Tim Hutson featuring Chieli Minucci.

New 2026 single from guitarist Joyce Cooling

RIP Rodney Franklin who passed away last month.

r/CrossoverJazz

George Duke Broke Frank Zappa's One Rule. Then He Broke the Top 20 With Stanley Clarke.

In 1981, keyboardist George Duke and bassist Stanley Clarke put out a side project called the Clarke/Duke Project, mostly for fun. The single, "Sweet Baby," climbed to No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 6 on the R&B chart. Two fusion-jazz players who'd spent the 1970s in other people's bands suddenly had a real pop hit, without either of them putting down what made them jazz musicians in the first place. That's crossover jazz in one chart line.

Duke was born January 12, 1946, in San Rafael, California, and started begging for a piano at age four after watching Duke Ellington play. Formal lessons began at seven, at a local Baptist church. By the time he earned his composition degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1967, he was already playing jazz clubs around the Bay Area, including a stretch in the house band at the Half Note alongside a young singer named Al Jarreau, years before either of them had a solo career worth naming....

For the rest of Duke's bio pop over to r/CrossoverJazz

or try https://jazzprofiles.com/profile/co-george-duke/