i call sally clark. i saw paul jackson on guitar.. >> wonderful players. >> you have some friends. >> and people who came to help me do this wonderful record to celebrate the great george duke. >> george was quite an artist. take me back to the beginnings of your friendship. >> there's a record called "al jarreau and george duke live at the half note." my wife says b.c. b.c. don't forget that, al. we were there. >> right. >> people were doing other music than what we were doing. we were swimming upstream. finding an audience for this little jazzy something we were doing, testing the waters and making decisions about whether to go forward. i don't think george and i have any choice but to go forward with this jazzy approach to the music. so, we did. he kind of went some other way with frank zappa and brought a lot of stuff to frank. had a marvelous career, but such a broad career that said, hip hop to bee bop. that was george. >> covered it all. >> covered it all and the romantic side of things. so, i wanted to do this record and when