and scored a minor hit with “You’re Still a Young Man. Multi-racial, funk and soul band with the tightest horn section east and west of the Rockies.
Revered promoter Bill Graham signed Tower of Power to San Francisco Records in 1970 after an audition at the Fillmore and released their debut LP, East Bay Grease, later that year. For their follow-up, Bump City, the group signed with Warner Bros. Dimitrious Jazz Alley welcomes Tower of Power Band members are: Emilio Castillo (sax), Doc Kupka (sax), Ray Greene (vocals/trombone), David Garibaldi (drums), Roger Smith (keys/organ), Adolfo Acosta (trumpet) Jerry Cortez (guitar), Marc van Waginengin (bass), Tom Politzer (sax), and Harry Kim (trumpet). Our sincere condolences go out to his wife Julia, his daughter Megan and their entire family.”įormed in the late-Sixties as the Haight-Ashbury scene flourished across the San Francisco Bay, Tower of Power cultivated a brass-heavy sound that would make them one of the most important funk groups of the Seventies - and their horn section one of the most coveted. Tower of Power’s four mainstay members, from left, drummer David Garibaldi, bass guitarist Francis Rocco Prestia, baritone saxophonist Stephen Doc Kupka and. As it grew and Emilio added horns, he changed the name to Tower of Power. Emilio's original band, The Motowns, started small. “Mic was without a doubt the greatest brass player I’ve ever known. There was never a 5-member Tower of Power band. “The Tower of Power family was stunned today by the news that Mic Gillette, our dear friend and bandmate going back to 1966, passed away,” Emilio Castillo, Tower of Power bandleader, said in a statement. Re-Joining Tower of Power on Lead trumpet, trombone and flugelhorn is Iron Mike Bogart. Formed in August 1968, the group is centred around a horn section which originally featured tenor saxophonists Emilio 'Mimi' Castillo and Steven 'Skip' Mesquite, baritone saxophonist Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, and trumpeters Greg Adams, David Padron, Mic Gillette and Ken Balzell.
Mic Gillette, first trumpet and founding member of Oakland funk outfit Tower of Power, died over the weekend after suffering a heart attack, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Tower of Power (TOP) is an American rhythm and blues band from Oakland, California.
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