For over 55 years, Tower of Power has delivered the best in funk and soul music.“We were a Soul band called The Motowns.” recalls Emilio Castillo. “Rocco was the bass player, I was in there, and my ...

Tower of Power hasn’t done absolutely everything a band can do in 53 years, but it’s come close. Since debuting in 1968 in Oakland, the brassy soul, funk and R&B band has released 29 albums — ...

KALW Music's Lorisa Salvatin chats with Tower of Power's Emilio Castillo and Jordan John about their return to Yoshi's and ...

The McAninch Arts Center is hosting the exclusive Chicago area engagement of Tower of Power, one of the most popular R&B, funk and soul bands, on Sunday, Oct. 1. Continuously performing since the band ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A Capitol Corridor train hit two musicians just before 8 p.m. on Embarcadero West and Washington Street in Oakland's Jack London Square, right next to Oakland music venue, Yoshi's.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Tower of Power and The Robert Cray Band are set to perform at the Wilson Center this September. Tower of Power will be performing on Sep. 10 at 7 p.m. Tickets go on sale for ...

Tower of Power’s four mainstay members, from left, drummer David Garibaldi, bass guitarist Francis Rocco Prestia, baritone saxophonist Stephen “Doc” Kupka and tenor saxophonist/group leader Emilio ...

Tower of Power founder Emilio Castillo learned his dad was right. The Detroit native started a band called The Motowns in 1967. By this time, Castillo was a young man living with his father near ...

Going to live concerts just isn’t an option right now — but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the excitement and electricity of one of funk music’s greatest live acts. Tower of Power is set to release ...

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 ...