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Friday Evening Jazz: Marvin Gaye

Posted on May 16, 2008

Last week, while randomly channel surfing, I stumbled across a fantastic PBS documentary in the American Masters series, titled Marvin Gaye: What's Going On. It was a terrific review of the wonderful music and troubled life of Marvin Gaye. Those of you who are less familiar with early Soul and R&B owe it to yourself to learn a bit about Gaye, best known as an artist on the Motown record label in the 1960s and 1970s. Gaye had a classic R&B voice -- described as edged with grit yet tempered with sweetness. But he was much more than that: He was Motown s renaissance man: A songwriter, compos...

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