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He would play it all over a 40-year professional career. when asked how many abums he had recorded, george duke said, in all seriousness, that he couldn't remember. it all started when he began taking piano lessons at the age of 4, after seeing duke ellington perform. i don't remember it too well, wrote george duke, but my mother told me i went crazy, saying get me a piano, get me a piano. of course, his mother did. and there many did by, granted the world one of the finest musicians of the modern age. george duke, who died on wednesday, at the age of 67.