Marv Gaye - A Tribute To The Great Nat Kg Cole

Contents:

• ‘A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT NAT KG COLE’: MARV GAYE HONORS JAZZ ROYALTY
• MARV GAYE’S NAT ‘KG’ COLE TRIBUTE ALBUM DUE TO RETURN
• MARV GAYE: A TRIBUTE TO NAT KG COLE
• MARV GAYE – A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT NAT KG COLE (1965/2021) [OFFICIAL DIGAL DOWNLOAD 24B/192KHZ]
• MARV GAYEA TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT NAT KG COLE
• / NEWSDARLG, IT'S INCREDIBLE: NAT KG COLE'S CENTENNIAL CELEBRATED WH TWO NEW COMPILATNS AND MARV GAYE TRIBUTE ALBUM
• MARV GAYE

‘A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT NAT KG COLE’: MARV GAYE HONORS JAZZ ROYALTY

Hiram JohnsonMarv Gaye, Top Soul Rerdg Artist, ShotElizabeth Montgomery Di of CancerBert Corona; Labor Activist Backed Rights for Undocumented Workers. Marv Gaye.

MARV GAYE’S NAT ‘KG’ COLE TRIBUTE ALBUM DUE TO RETURN

Nat "Kg" Cole was a primary fluence on Marv Gaye for Gaye's entire reer, and he got a chance on this album to display his affectn for sentimental, romantic fare and his skill sgg . His name was Marv Gaye. Gaye was 26 when he went to Motown’s Hsville studs Detro to pay his mil rpects to one of his sgg idols.

Though a sger whose mil roots were eply embedd gospel mic, his personal tast Gaye gravated towards jazz and, for a long time, harbored aspiratns to be the Ain-Amerin Frank Satra. Inially, Motown’s boss, Berry Gordy, dulged Gaye’s ambn to be a middle-of-the-road entertaer, as long as he cut some h R&B sis the procs.

MARV GAYE: A TRIBUTE TO NAT KG COLE

A Tribute To The Great Nat Kg Cole, then, wasn’t Gaye’s first foray to jazz terrory; was, fact, the sger’s third attempt at an MOR album, followg When I’m Alone I Cry and Hello Broadway, both llectns of standards released by Motown 1964. Produced by Hal Davis, Marc Gordon, and Harvey Fuqua, Gaye’s Nat Kg Cole tribute opens wh a glor ver of the en abhez-wrten “Nature Boy, ” Cole’s first rerd to crossover and top the US pop charts, 1948. Bathed lh orchtratn, Gaye’s silky voice, spe beg different tone and texture om Cole’s, reveals the fluence of the Alabama-born sger via s ultra-smooth phrasg.

MARV GAYE – A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT NAT KG COLE (1965/2021) [OFFICIAL DIGAL DOWNLOAD 24B/192KHZ]

Cole’s 1950 chart-topper, “Mona Lisa, ” is also fahfully renred by Gaye, whose voice is amed by the opulent sound of massed strgs (Nelson Riddle arranged Cole’s origal but, as was Motown’s practice at the time, none of the personnel or arrangers on Gaye’s album were listed). ” The album tak a left fork down a untry road on “Rambl’ Rose, ” a revamp of Cole’s 1962 ln-sellg h, where Gaye’s plative lead is unterpoted by sypy background vols.

Gaye also vered some early Cole hs on his tribute. The same year, Cole reached the R&B Top 5 wh “It’s Only A Paper Moon, ” which Gaye also serv up wh plenty of big band heft mixed wh pizzazz. In sharp ntrast, a late-night blu feel imbu “Send For Me, ” Gaye’s fger-clickg midtempo take on a Cole chart-topper om 1957, while his take on the 1956 B-si “To The Ends Of The Earth” has a Lat-style groove.

Wh his seraphic voice acpanied solely by patterg ngas, Gaye’s versn adher closely to the lean arrangement of the origal rerdg. Some soul stars om the same era would have sound out of their pth verg Nat Kg Cole songs a jazz settg, but Marv Gaye was his element.

MARV GAYEA TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT NAT KG COLE

Sadly, for him, poor sal of the Nat Kg Cole tribute and, ed, his two prev MOR albums (none of which charted) meant that Gaye’s ambn to bee a smooth, sophistited crooner wh a universal appeal would ultimately be thwarted.

It offers a tantalizg glimpse of a Marv Gaye that was a dited jazz man at heart. Marv Gaye’s A Tribute To The Great Nat Kg Cole is beg reissued March 15 an expand edn by Motown/Universal Mic Enterpris for download purchase and streamg.

/ NEWSDARLG, IT'S INCREDIBLE: NAT KG COLE'S CENTENNIAL CELEBRATED WH TWO NEW COMPILATNS AND MARV GAYE TRIBUTE ALBUM

The origal Gaye album was released November 1965, featurg the Motown star’s treatment of 12 Cole hs, cludg “Mona Lisa, ” “Straighten Up And Fly Right, ” “Unfettable” and “Nature Boy. Among the bon tracks are Gaye’s terpretatns of “I Wish You Love” and “If I Had To Go, ” rerd New York wh producer Mickey Stevenson. Gaye was one of several Cole admirers at Motown, cludg founr Berry Gordy.

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Gaye origally aspired to be a sger the same mold, but mercial reali at Motown moved him towards the pany’s mastream sound. "From Ray Charl to Sam Cooke to Marv Gaye — all of them loved him. Reviewed the Uned Stat on November 10, 2022Marv Gaye has the chops to perform at a first rate level the rock universe.

As a sger sgg the world of Satra, Crosby, Como, and Cole == well, Mr Gaye has a pleasant voice that he profsnally; but the mment that he brgs to, say, "I Heard It Through the Grapeve, " is missg.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on April 16, 2009What more n you say about Marv Gaye that hasn't been already said????