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Tower of Power: 50 Years of Funk and Soul

Read "50 Years of Funk and Soul" reviewed by John Pietaro


In the realm of power funk and jazz-rock, Tower of Power was an original voice, one carved from a unique place within an exceptionally heady moment. And this convergence of forces, clearly, has yet to cool some 53 years hence. Horns? They've carried up to six at a time, to hell with diminished door splits. A big band of scorching funk, Tower of Power traces its roots to 1968 Oakland, where it flourished in a thicket of sound ...

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organ, Hammond B3
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organ, Hammond B3

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50 Years of Funk and...

Mack Avenue Records
2021

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Live In Digital

Sea Breeze Records
1988

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Direct

Sheffield Lab
1981

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Moonpie

P-Vine Records
1977

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Powerhouse

Black Jazz Records
1971

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