Hear the Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews (1977)

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Hear the Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews (1977)

Even if you’ve never read Frank Herbert’s Dune, you may well have encountered its adaptations to a variety of other media: comic books, video games, board games, television series, and of course films, David Lynch’s 1984 version and Denis Villeneuve’s two-parter earlier this decade. But before any of those came Dune, the jazz-funk album by keyboardist and bandleader David Matthews. Released in 1977 on the popular jazz label CTI Records, it devot…