| 1. Soul With a Capital "S" |
| 2. I Like Your Style |
| 3. Soul Vaccination |
| 4. Down to the Night Club (Bump City) |
| 5. Willin' to Learn |
| 6. Souled Out |
| 7. Diggin' on James Brown |
| 8. (To Say the Least) You're the Most |
| 9. You Strike My Main Nerve |
| 10. Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong) |
| 11. You Got to Funkifize |
| 12. So Very Hard to Go |
| 13. What Is Up |
| 14. You're Still a Young Man |
| 15. So I Got to Groove |
Editorial Reviews
From Jazziz
"All I wanted to do was to get to Sacramento to play the topless bars," recalls tower of power founder and tenor saxophonist Emilio Castillo about his band's early days in the late '60s. Clearly, the funk horn ensemble has accomplished much more than that. A major influence on fusion and smooth jazz, the 10-piece band has recorded albums for Epic, Columbia, and Warner Bros. and continues to tour the summer jazz-festival circuit. Tower's new album, Soul Vaccination: Tower of Power Live, features 15 of the band's most popular songs as recorded during a 1998 world tour. Half of the tunes were recorded at the Fillmore in San Francisco, where the band performed frequently back in the day. However, Castillo remembers during Tower's first gig at the club, the fans really weren't sure what to expect. "There we were, all wearing velour shirts that were so worn out they had no more velour on them," he recalls. "When we brought the horns out on the stage, the entire audience started to walk out. Then we hit the first note of the James Brown tune 'Open the Door,' and it was as if everyone said, 'About face.' We started grooving as if our lives depended on it."
"All I wanted to do was to get to Sacramento to play the topless bars," recalls tower of power founder and tenor saxophonist Emilio Castillo about his band's early days in the late '60s. Clearly, the funk horn ensemble has accomplished much more than that. A major influence on fusion and smooth jazz, the 10-piece band has recorded albums for Epic, Columbia, and Warner Bros. and continues to tour the summer jazz-festival circuit. Tower's new album, Soul Vaccination: Tower of Power Live, features 15 of the band's most popular songs as recorded during a 1998 world tour. Half of the tunes were recorded at the Fillmore in San Francisco, where the band performed frequently back in the day. However, Castillo remembers during Tower's first gig at the club, the fans really weren't sure what to expect. "There we were, all wearing velour shirts that were so worn out they had no more velour on them," he recalls. "When we brought the horns out on the stage, the entire audience started to walk out. Then we hit the first note of the James Brown tune 'Open the Door,' and it was as if everyone said, 'About face.' We started grooving as if our lives depended on it."
--- JAZZIZ Magazine Copyright © 2000, Milor Entertainment, Inc.
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