After his US R&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 (reissued by SoulMusic.com Records on SMCR-5029). A US Top 20 R&Band Top 200 pop charted album, MASTER OF THE GAME included the Top 30 R&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 available as a Japanese CD release include the instrumental Dog-Man and the EW&F-influenced cut Every Little Step I Take. MASTER OF THE GAME is one of four George Duke classic jazz/ funk albums being reissued by SoulMusic.com Records in 2011. This expanded edition includesUSsingle
01 Look What You Find 02 Every Little Step I Take 03 Games 04 I Want You For Myself 05 In The Distance 06 I Love You More 07 Dog-man 08 Everybody's Talkin' 09 Pt 1 - The Alien Challenges 10 - The Stick 11 Pt 2 - The Alien Succumbs To 12 - The Macho Intergalactic
13 - Funkativity Of The Funkblasters 14 Bonus Tracks: 15 I Want You For Myself Us 16 Single Edit 17 Every Little Step I Take Us 18 Single Edit