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They just keep doing what they do best, thus with great anticipation were looking forward to the final result of their work.Tower of Power discography and songs: Music profile for Tower of Power, formed 1968. After the successful predecessor 'Midnight Ghost' (2018) entered German Album Charts on 25 and scored 55 in Swiss album charts, Brainstorm do not cease or lower the power and tempo. If Tower of Power's new Step Up - premiering exclusively below in front of its March 20 release - sounds cut from the same cloth as 2018's Soul Side of Town, there's good reason. And second, Tower of Power didnвЂ™t play psychedelic rockвЂ”from the start, they were all about soul and funk.Tower of Power. For one thing, they were from Oakland although located directly across the bay from San Francisco, it might as well have been a suburb of Chattanooga as far as the rock audience was concerned.

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All of the bandвЂ™s signature tunesвЂ”вЂњWhat Is Hip?,вЂќ вЂњYouвЂ™re Still a Young Man,вЂќ вЂњSo Very Hard to Go,вЂќ вЂњYou Ought to Be Having Fun,вЂќ and 18 othersвЂ”are given definitive live treatments by the ensemble, numbering more than a dozen players for the occasion.At their Schermerhorn debut, hear tunes from their latest album Step Up, plus explosive hits like: What is Hip Soul with a Capital S Youre Still a Young.Regardless of whoвЂ™s come and gone through the yearsвЂ”and ToP has hosted a number of fine vocalists as well as instrumentalistsвЂ”the core of the band has always been its five-piece horn section. The highlights, which included guest appearances from several alumniвЂ”Tower of Power has encompassed more than 60 individuals during its half-centuryвЂ”have now been released as a two-CD/one-DVD set, appropriately titled 50 Years of Funk & SoulвЂ”Live at the Fox Theater (Artistry). вЂњOur album designer said, вЂYou guys need to claim Oakland.вЂ™ So we named that first album East Bay Grease and weвЂ™ve been promoting Oakland, California, ever since, throughout the world.вЂќTower Of Power On New Live Album '50 Years Of Funk & Soul' & Why COVID-19 Hasn't Slowed Them Down Facebook Twitter Email Ahead of their GRAMMY Museum appearance on Thursday, April 22, Tower of Power's Emilio Castillo and David Garibaldi discuss '50 Years Of Funk & Soul' and their half-century in the horn-section gameIt all came full circle for ToP in June 2018, when the then-current lineup celebrated the outfitвЂ™s 50th anniversary over the course of two nights at OaklandвЂ™s historic Fox Theater. Albums include Desire, Tower of Power.вЂњIt was pointed out to us early in our career that we were not a San Francisco band,вЂќ says Tower of Power tenor saxophonist and bandleader Emilio Castillo, one of the two co-founders still performing with the group, along with baritone saxophonist Stephen вЂњDocвЂќ Kupka.

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But while some membersвЂ”funky bassist Rocco Prestia (who died in 2020) and drummer David Garibaldi (who spent most of the вЂ™70s in the band, then returned in 1998), keyboardist Chester Thompson, and a parade of singersвЂ”became well-known, ToP was always more concerned with a uniformity of sound than individual acumen.They were also unflinchingly tenacious: Attempts to push the band in temporarily trendy directions were met with scorn. Their commercial peak came in the midst of that decade, with a series of albums for Warner Bros. Honing the membership, they jelled into an air-tight unit by the start of their recording career in 1970. At first, they were called the Motowns, but they knew pretty quickly that that wasnвЂ™t going to fly.

Also, he points out, вЂњPlaying with so many players that are excellent jazz musicians and having them inject their ideasвЂ”various chord changes and different things you could do rhythmicallyвЂ”I absorbed all of that into our music. ThatвЂ™s my strength,вЂќ Kupka says.But, adds Castillo, some of the key musicians whoвЂ™ve been with Tower of Power do have solid jazz credentials and take readily to soloing when they step up, theyвЂ™re given unfettered leeway. вЂњIвЂ™m not really much of an improviser, but I make a horn section sound real good. While Kupka cites trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Eddie Harris as influences, and Castillo names sax greats Hank Crawford, Maceo Parker, and King Curtis, the two ToP mainstays are quick to point out that they eschew soloing, preferring to drive the band by perfecting prescribed written parts. But we found that, for us to be at our best, we had to be true to ourselves.вЂќJazz, in fact, has only been on the periphery of the Tower of Power formula, rarely an overt factor in their music. вЂњThen when smooth jazz was big, they thought we should go in that direction.