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• RARE MARV GAYE STMENTAL ALBUM MA AVAILABLE FOR VERY FIRST TIME
• MARV GAYE
• A RARE INSTMENTAL MARV GAYE ALBUM HAS SURFACED
• MARV GAYE
• ‘FUNKY NATN’ REVISS MARV GAYE’S FOTTEN 1971 INSTMENTAL JAM SSNS [STREAM]
• MICHAEL HENRSON SH ON UNEARTHED MARV GAYE INSTMENTAL ALBUM
• A RARE MARV GAYE STMENTAL ALBUM RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME
• A RARE STMENTAL MARV GAYE ALBUM HAS BEEN RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME

RARE MARV GAYE STMENTAL ALBUM MA AVAILABLE FOR VERY FIRST TIME

A rare Marv Gaye stmental album has been ma available as a standalone LP for the very first time – listen to below. READ MORE: Marv Gaye – ‘You’re The Man’ review. Rerd durg the summer of 1971, ‘Funky Natn: The Detro Instmentals’ is the rult of some downtime Gaye had after refg to tour support of his game-changg classic album, ‘What’s Gog On’.

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Released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the tle track om ‘What’s Gog On’, the 14-track, funk-driven llectn of stmentals hears Gaye joed by the late Haton Bohannon on dms, Ray Parker Jr. While some of the tracks have been heard on prr special edns of Gaye albums – and the full llectn was featured the Super Deluxe 40th-anniversary edn of ‘What’s Gog On’ – this is the first time ‘Funky Natn’ has been released digally as a standalone. Listen to Marv Gaye’s ‘Funky Natn: The Detro Instmentals’ below:.

Three months later, he dropped out of the film – set to follow Gaye’s time tryg to rever om addictn and rebuild his reer the early ’80s – and was replaced by Law & Orr star Jse L. Playg Marv Gaye is a wonrful opportuny but I’m jt tryg to do my thg.

Ridg high on the succs of the landmark What's Gog On, Marv Gaye won a lucrative rerd ntract and total creative eedom for his next project. Gaye nducts a full orchtra, cludg sci-fi synths and sultry horns, on the mostly stmental tracks, which traverse moods rangg om sctive to spenseful to jt pla ol. Flecked wh Gaye's angelic vols, Trouble Man transcends mere soundtrack fare.

A RARE INSTMENTAL MARV GAYE ALBUM HAS SURFACED

Dpe beg a rnerstone of the Motown empire, the tragic loss of his sgg partner and llaborator Tammi Terrell 1970 left Marv Gaye reluctant to h a stage of any sort the followg year.

Even wh his masterpiece, What's Gog On, out and receivg rave reviews, Gaye refed to tour support of the album. In fact, to this day, the only performance of What's Gog On s entirety arrived almost exactly a year after was released when Gaye was honored wh a memorative day Washgton, DC.

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Instead of htg the road, Gaye returned to Motown HQ the summer of 1971 to cut a tripped-out stmental album wh a number of future stars of fn and funk. On the 14-track llectn of psychelic stmental su, Marv Gaye is joed by the late Haton Bohannon on dms, Ray Parker Jr.

A handful of tracks om the album were released on prr special edns of albums and the full llectn was featured the "super luxe" 40th-anniversary edn of What's Gog On, but this is the first time Funky Natn has been released digally as a standalone n stream Marv Gaye's Funky Natn: The Detro Instmentals below. Even wh his masterpiece, What’s Gog On, out and receivg rave reviews, Gaye refed to tour support of the album.

‘FUNKY NATN’ REVISS MARV GAYE’S FOTTEN 1971 INSTMENTAL JAM SSNS [STREAM]

In fact, to this day, the only performance of What’s Gog On s entirety arrived almost exactly a year after was released when Gaye was honored wh a memorative day Washgton, DC.

You n stream Marv Gaye’s Funky Natn: The Detro Instmentals below. 1973Diana & MarvLP • Diana Ross & Marv Gaye75cric sre (2).

1969EasyLP • Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell50cric sre (1).

MICHAEL HENRSON SH ON UNEARTHED MARV GAYE INSTMENTAL ALBUM

1968You're All I NeedLP • Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell73er sre (32). 1967UnedLP • Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell90cric sre (1). 1966Take TwoLP • Marv Gaye & Kim Wton62er sre (15).

1966Moods of Marv GayeLP80cric sre (1). 1964TogetherLP • Marv Gaye & Mary Wells50cric sre (1).

A RARE MARV GAYE STMENTAL ALBUM RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME

1961The Soulful Moods of Marv GayeLP60cric sre (1). EPs2021Save The World Remix SueEP • Marv Gaye & Salaam Remi60er sre (1).

3EP1967Origals From Marv GayeEP1966Marv GayeEP1965I'll Be DoggoneEP1965How Sweet It IsEP1964You're a Wonrful OneEPSglView All2020I Want You [Unrboss remix]Sgle2019A't No Mounta High Enough (DJ Komori Remix)Sgle • Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell73er sre (2). 1981Heavy Love AffairSgle1981PraiseSgle1978Pops, We Love You (A Tribute to Father)Sgle • Diana Ross, Marv Gaye, Smokey Robson & Stevie Wonr1977Got to Give It UpSgle84er sre (5). Updatg his highly percsive but strg-lan groove for the dis set, Gaye clearly vised 1976’s I Want You as a makeout album.

A RARE STMENTAL MARV GAYE ALBUM HAS BEEN RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME

And the Ao-Caribbean ngas of “I Want You” and bossa nova lilt of “Sce I Had You” support a mix of rhythm and bety that ref to box self —punctuated by Gaye’s own murmurg, the sound flows like a sweet, sctive stream.

A new album of funk-spired stmental rerdgs tracked durg the summer of 1971 shows a nearly-fotten seri of superb stud ssn jams led by late soul sger Marv Gaye. Entled, Funky Natn: The Detro Instmentals, the 14-track album released this past Friday (1/22) via UMG/Motown Rerds acpani the 50th-anniversary luxe reissue of Gaye’s semal What’s Gog On–also released last week.

As OkayPlayer pots out, the band for Gaye’s post-What’s Gog On ssns prised of dmmer Haton Bohannon, guarists Ray Parker Jr, Wah Wah Watson, and Leroy Emmanuel, and bassist Michael Henrson. From the first not of the openg track where Gaye mak a brief appearance to rm listeners “The ts, sure are funky, ” the 41-mute album drips wh utter funk-spired olns all the way through.

Other than his quick meo durg “Checkg Out (Double Clutch)”, Gaye’s prence is absent on the rerdgs until he reappears to add some subtle sttg l on the send-to-last track “Sttt’ The Blu”.

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Marv Gaye’s inic album What’s Gog On turned 50 this year, and Motown/UMe celebrated wh a luxe digal edn that b the origal album wh tracks om prevly released special edns. Fifty years later and still sounds listen to his fills on the openg track, “Checkg Out (Double Clutch)”:Gaye is only peripherally on the album to announce the band and st om time to time.

Tled Funky Natn: The Detro Instmentals, the album was rerd 1971 durg the perd when Gaye refed to tour support of his absolute classic What’s Gog New Mil Exprs reports, is released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the tle track om What’s Gog On, the 14-track, funk-driven llectn of stmentals hears Gaye joed by the late Haton Bohannon on dms, Ray Parker Jr. (17-years-old at the time), Wah Wah Watson, and Leroy Emmanuel on guars, as well as a 20-year-old Michael Henrson on some of the tracks have been heard on prr special edns of Gaye albums – and the full llectn was featured the Super Deluxe 40th-anniversary edn of What’s Gog On – this is the first time Funky Natn has been released digally as a also At the same time, the stori about several Marv Gaye bpics are ntug to leak out. Thanks to his credible vol power, mil legacy and tragilly short reer, the work of Marv Gaye has been pawed over for s.

It has meant that very ltle art associated wh Gaye has yet to be explored, but now there’s a new album to vour. You n listen to the rerd full below, and get a taste of Funky Natn: The Detro Instmentals and Gaye’s posn at the time. The album me out of Gaye havg some unual rt followg the sger’s refal to go on tour.

Gaye had jt released his semal rerd What’s Gog On and refed to be shipped off on a promotnal tour. Some of the songs below have been heard on different special edn Marv Gaye releas, but never as a plete set.

It’s a stnch remr of the talent Gaye had behd him when he livered a fg album of the century.