In a career stretching over five decades, Duke collaborated with an array of other musicians, among them Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Barry Manilow, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Jarreau, Don Ellis, Cannonball Adderly, Nancy Wilson and Joe Williams.
Duke, who was born in San Rafael in Northern California, was one of the leading forces in bringing jazz and rock together, genres that not only were typically separate in the 1950s and early-'60s, but whose proponents often were philosophically at odds. Duke found the common ground between the styles.
