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Rep: Jazz keyboardist George Duke dies at 67

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

US jazz artist George Duke performs on the Stravinski Hall stage at the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, late Monday, July 13, 2009. A representative for Duke said the performer died on August 5, 2013 in Los Angeles at age 67. Duke was being treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. (AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)

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MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - August 6, 2013 (WPVI) -- A representative says Grammy-winning jazz keyboardist and producer George Duke, whose sound infused acoustic jazz, electronic jazz, funk, R&B and soul, has died. He was 67.

The representative said Duke died Monday night in Los Angeles. He was being treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

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During his 40-year-plus career, Duke appeared on a number of Frank Zappa's albums and played in the Don Ellis Orchestra and Cannonball Adderley's band. He played keyboard on Michael Jackson's multiplatinum 1979 album, "Off the Wall," and was a producer for Miles Davis, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Natalie Cole.

He also released more than 30 solo albums.

Duke's wife, Corine, died from cancer last year.