Legendary Jazz artist George Duke dead at 67

The legendary George Duke died on Monday at the age of 67. The cause of death was not announced.

Known as a virtuoso in his field, Duke was a multifaceted musician in jazz, funk, R&B and fusion and, and produced and composed for Miles Davis, Gladys Knight, Anita Baker and Johnny Gill,among many others. He collaborated with Jill Scott and Frank Zappa. And, he created more than 30 of his own solo projects, including his most recent album, DreamWeaver, which was dedicated to his wife Corine, who died of cancer just last year.

Duke also worked as music director, including for the 1989 Nelson Mandela tribute concert in London and NBC’s music performance program Sunday Night.

His work has been sampled by Kanye West (for Common‘s “Break My Heart” off Finding Forever), Ice Cube (“True to the Game”), MF Doom (“I Hear Voices,” “Someday”), Spice 1 (“In My Neighborhood”) and 9th Wonder (for NC rapper Kaze’s “Spirit of ’94”).

To read more about his career visit BET.com.