Pile Poil j'écoute ça

un des albums les plus apaisants du monde

Un petit " flash back " a l'occasion de la sortie de son nouvel album que je n'ai pas encore écouté attentivement..



Un album sensuel, vraiment très agréable à c't'heure..

Je connaissais la section de cuivres par leurs collaborations diverses avec Huey Lewis & The News, entre autres, mais pas LEUR répertoire et le groove qui se dégage de ça, merci Concert Vault !

C'est TOP !!! Quelle belle époque !!!

Tower of Power
Winterland, San Francisco, CA
December 31st, 1974
Concert Vault MP3

77'30"
01 "Auld Lang Syne" 2'30"
02 "Oakland Stroke" / "Walkin' Up Hip Street" 7'41"
03 "It's Not The Crime" 2'01"
04 "This Time It's Real" 4'38"
05 "Only So Much Oil In The Ground" 3'53"
06 "Willing To Learn" 5'10"
07 "Don't Change Horses" 4'46"
08 "Give Me The Proof" 2'42"
09 "So Very Hard To Go" 4'33"
10 "I Believe In Myself" / "What Is Hip" 8'13"
11 "Knock Yourself Out" 19'19"
12 "You're Still A Young Man" 5'09"
13 "You're The Most (To Say The Least)" 4'04"
14 "Down To The Night Club" 2'43"

Lenny Williams - lead vocals
Francis "Rocco" Prestia - bass
Bruce Conte - guitar, vocals
Chester Thompson - keyboards
David Bartlett - drums
Emilio Castillo - tenor sax, vocals
Stephen "Doc" Kupka - baritone sax, vocals
Lenny Pickett - flute, clarinet and saxes, vocals
Greg Adams - trumpet, flugelhorn
Mic Gillette - trumpet, trombone, vocals

Vocalist Lenny Williams, who had been in Tower of Power for less than two years, was about to depart when the band played this headlining New Year's Eve show at Winterland that also featured an MG-less Booker T. Jones and the Sons of Chaplin.

After ringing in the New Year with "Auld Lang Syne," the band kicks into "Oakland Stroke," a funky exercise that features the extremely hot musicianship of the band. That track opened and closed the band's Back To Oakland album, a landmark R&B record and their fourth as a band. Moving through old and current (for the time) material, TOP rocks hard with songs like "This Time It's Real," "Don't Change Horses," "So Very Hard To Go," and "You're Still A Young Man," before closing with the infectious "Down To The Night Club."

Soon after, Williams would depart and return to a solo career that was just about to begin when he was sidetracked in mid-1972 and asked to be the group's lead vocalist. Williams would have hits, but never match the success he had in Tower of Power; the band, likewise, would never have a lead vocalist with as much cross-over appeal as Williams, and never sell as many records.

Walking through a door that was opened by New York's Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago (from—where else—Chicago) in the late-1960s, Tower of Power emerged at the onset of the '70s as the West coast answer to the horn-driven rock movement. But whereas the other aforementioned groups paid a heavy debt to the big-band and jazz sound, TOP (as they were known) based its music around the soul and funk sounds of James Brown, Motown, and Stax Records.

The original incarnation of the band came out of a funk band formed in 1968 by saxophonist Emilio Castillo, baritone saxophonist Stephen "Doc" Kupka, and trumpeter Mic Gillette called The Motowns. This power trio of horn players moved to the Bay Area soon after, and by 1970, had formed a new group called Tower of Power.

By the time TOP was playing gigs in San Francisco clubs they had grown to 11 pieces and included acclaimed arranger Greg Adams (on trumpet and flugelhorn); the smoking-hot rhythm section of drummer Dave Garibaldi and bassist Frank Rocco Presti; and vocalist Rufus Miller. (Future Saturday Night Live band director Lenny Pickett would join soon after this recording was made on sax and flute).

They were signed immediately by Bill Graham, who placed them on his own San Francisco Records label (moving them the following year to a more lucrative contract on Warner Brothers Records), and booked them on a regular basis at his Fillmore East and West theaters.

Rufus Miller left after the first album, East Bay Grease, was recorded, but appears on this recording. The next vocalist, Rick Stevens, remained through the second album, Bump City, but was replaced just prior to the third album by Lenny Williams due to his problematic drug habit. It would be on its next album, Tower of Power, with vocalist Lenny Williams, that the band scored its biggest radio hits: "What Is Hip?" and "So Very Hard To Go."

The band has remained together since its inception, with Castillo and Kupka recording and touring as TOP, and over 60 musicians passing through the band's ranks over the years. Currently, Tower of Power has re-grouped with original members Castillo, Kupka, Presti, and Garibaldi working with the band.

Dans la série des archives des Twins, celui ci est bien particulier.
Enregistré dans un club, il permet d'entendre pas mal de titres rarement interprétés par le groupe.
Et une version de "19th Nervous Breakdown" vachement bien réorchestrée

Depuis 4 jours, je me repasse cette vidéo !
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e2fJfiddx4
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Avec énormément de bonheur...

Mais c'est qu'il est brillant le nouvel album du Loner!

CC Rider a écrit:


Mais c'est qu'il est brillant le nouvel album du Loner!

Je plussoie ....

Allez pour bien finir la semaine.

Dieu que c'est bon .....

SANTANA à la Grande époque !!

Enregistré au Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo, Californie

Sorti en aout 1969 - Columbia Records/Legacy

Sans doute le dernier album du groupe, paru il y a 2 ans, sans Paul Cotton, mais avec en guest George Grantham, le batteur historique, sur un titre, et aussi un certain Bobby Keys, l'un de ses derniers enregistrements.

Un album que Susan Tedeschi m'avait dit à l'époque (en 2006), que c'était son coup de coeur du moment, elle a bon goût. Une petite merveille ce 1er album.

Je ne sais pas si la nostalgie fait rajeunir...

2 excellentes choses aujourd'hui :

J'ai trouvé ça dans ma boite aux lettres en rentrant du taf :



et le fiston m'a sonné dans la foulée pour me prévenir que le BTS était en poche

Le 1er cd est dans la platine et c'est trop bon...
Le son est excellent...

je suis heureux ce soir....

Ma chanson préférée indéniablement des excellents ALABAMA SHAKES, uniquement sur le B.O. ddu non moins excellent film SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (en France sous le titre HAPPINESS THERAPY), avec une belle brochette d'acteurs.

Merci JC pour cette découverte