Name: Master Of The Game - Expanded Edition
Brand: George Duke

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SMCR5030

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-05-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cherry Red (ADA)

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

George Duke

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

Label GB

Soul Music

After his US R&amp;B success with Reach For It (1977) and Dukey Stick (1978), Master Of The Game was jazz’n’funk pioneer George Duke’s fifth album for Epic Records, the follow up to Follow The Rainbow. A US Top 20 R&amp;B and Top 200 pop charted album, Master Of The Game included the Top 30 R&amp;B and club hit single ‘I Want You For Myself’ featuring vocalist Lynn Davis.

The master keyboardist was the sole writer on eight tracks collaborating with famed percussionist Sheila E. on Games” and with guitarist David Myles, drummer Ricky Lawson and bassist Byron Miler – all featured players on the album – on the nine-minute-plus funk opus, “The Alien Challenges The Stick/The Alien Succumbs To The Macho Intergalactic Funkativity Of The Funkblasters.” 

Other key cuts on Master Of The Game – previously only originally available as a Japanese CD release – include the Latin-flavoured instrumental ‘Dog-Man’ and the EW&amp;F-influenced cut ‘Every Little Step I Take.’ This expanded edition includes US single edits of ‘I Want You For Myself’ and ‘Every Little Step I Take.’ Notes by respected writer (and former Blues and Soul contributor) Jeff Lorez.

Master Of The Game - Expanded Edition

Music GB