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专辑名称: 50 Years of Funk & Soul: Live at the Fox Theater – Oakland, CA – June 2018 (Live)
创作艺人: [Tower Of Power]
音乐流派: Funk|疯克音乐
专辑规格: 2碟22首
出品公司: Artistry Music
发行时间: 2021/1/12
官方标价: £5.99 （会员免费下载）
域名语言: [en] （AI检测）
曲目介绍：
Stroke '75 (Live)
Ain't Nothing Stopping Us Now (Live)
You Ought to Be Having Fun (Live)
Soul with a Capital S (Live)
Stop (Live)
You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous (Live)
On the Serious Side (Live)
Just When We Start Makin' It (Live)
Soul Vaccination (Live)
What is Hip? / Soul Power (Live)
Do You Like That? (Live)
Drop It in the Slot (Live)
Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)? (Live)
Maybe It'll Rub Off (Live)
Don't Change Horses (Live)
Squib Cakes (Live)
On the Soul Side of Town (Live)
Diggin' on James Brown (Medley): Diggin’ on James Brown / It’s a New Day / Mother Popcorn / There It Is / I Got the Feelin’ / Diggin’ on James Brown (Reprise) (Live)
So Very Hard to Go (Live)
Knock Yourself Out (Live)
You're Still a Young Man (Live)
Souled Out (Live)
详细介绍:
Available exclusively on Qobuz
Time waits for no one…right? While times and tastes change, every so often a group fine tunes a durable mix of musical firepower and showbiz glitz and manages to defy the years. This first call, horn section-turned-band, has solved the aging issue with a practical formula: get in a groove, write punchy horn charts, consistently whip up a high-energy funk revue where the jams blend together and viola, you have a band that is now celebrating the almost unheard-of milestone of a half century together! Tower of Power has a tradition of marking every passing decade with a live album and for their 50th anniversary in 2018 they brought the house—17 musicians and a full string section—to the Fox Theater in their original stomping ground of Oakland, CA, and filmed and recorded over 20 tracks in front of a partisan crowd that sounds appropriately stoked.
Though more than 60 musicians have passed through this band over the years, the first key to the band%27s longevity is the continued presence in their signature two trumpet-three saxophone attack of the group%27s two founding saxophone players, tenorman Emilio Castillo and baritone sax player Stephen Doc Kupka. Another essential element to the relentless tempos is the return of original drummer David Garibaldi, who deserves an ironman award for setting a lethal pace throughout. A special treat is that the other half of the band%27s classic original rhythm section, bassist Francis Rocco Prestia, appears on four tracks—his final live recordings with the band before his death in September 2020. Of the guests, it%27s good to hear SNL band director Lenny Pickett back in the fold and B-3 organist Chester Thompson adds several animated solos.
While many of these hard funk horn jams are mixed together without a break, this long set contains many outstanding instrumental highlights. ToP, who have appeared as a backup band on records by artists as diverse as Little Feat, The Meters, John Lee Hooker and Elton John, slide comfortably into supercharged versions of their early hits like 1973%27s What is Hip and near the end, 1972%27s You%27re Still a Young Man. A new tune Stop from 2018, vividly keeps the band%27s sound vital. Working hard to be an asset in a horn band, guitarist Jerry Cortez, makes his presence felt in a solo in Can%27t You See (You Doin%27 Me Wrong) And the band%27s best sweet soul number, You%27re So Wonderful, So Marvelous, reappears here in a new, near-definitive version.
At times, strong-voiced lead singer Marcus Scott%27s vocal enthusiasm verges on being obnoxious—not every tune needs multiple screams or a Make some noise! shout between verses. And while it may be time to retire the band%27s well-worn JB medley, Diggin%27 on James Brown, the smooth professionalism here is terrific and it%27s impressive that the band manages to keep up a full-bore, whirlwind energy level throughout these 22 tracks. While viewing the accompanying video would undoubtedly add to the enjoyment, this is one fiery soul set: proof the horn-driven funk has a thousand variations and so perhaps…an eternal life. © Robert Baird/Qobuz
