Our current playlist contains music from and about the originators of East Bay Soul “Tower Of Power” (TOP) as they celebrate their 45st Anniversay this month. . Our playlist includes TOP originals, TOP covers by other bands, music by former members of TOP, and music that includes the TOP horn section over the years. As the month progresses we will be adding more songs as well.

This playlist has more versions of What Is Hip? then you can imagine…..

Below in Artist Order (not in order of play) is our playilst dedicated to TOP:
Al Kooper-Finders Keepers
Al Kooper-Wrestle With This
Allen Savedoff-What Is Hip?
August The Band-Don’t Change Horses
Barela-Tower Pops
Barry Danielian-Shine Your Light
Barry Danielian-Street Smarts
Big Band Der Bundeswehr-Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride
Bononia Sound Machine-Doin’ It TOP Style
Brandon Fields-Grapevine
Brandon Fields-Smooth As Glass
Brian Culbertson-You Got To Funkifize Ft. Chance Howard
Bruce Conte-Messin’ With The Kid
Bruce Conte-Saturday Night Women
Candy Dulfer-2 Funky
Candy Dulfer-Drop It In The Slot
Carmen Grillo-Cookie
Carmen Grillo-Dr. In The House
Chad Rager Groove-What Is Hip?
Chester Thompson-Mr. T
Chester Thompson-Power House
Chilly Bob-Step Into My Life
Curtis Salgado-Both Sorry Over Nothin’
Dave C. Norman-What Is Hip?
Dave Stahl-Squib Cakes
Doctor Funk-Livin In Bump City
Doctorfunk-What’s Up Doc?
Doug And The Slugs-It’s Got To Be Monday
East Bay Soul-Brassalicious
East Bay Soul-Jump, Shout & Holler
Elvin Bishop-Calling All Cows
Euge Groove-From The Top
Euge Groove-Play Date
Francis Rocco Prestia-Don’t Play Around
Francis Rocco Prestia-Everybody on the Bus
Frank Biner-Frankie B. Is Back In Town
Frank Biner-Try A Little Tenderness
Funk Filharmonik-We Get The Notion
Funk Filharmonik-You Never Left Here
Funkiphino-Please Don’t Give Up on Me
Funkiphino-Rise Above
Glenn Walters with the Strokeland Superband-Diamond Billy’s Uptown Bar-B-Que
Glenn Walters-Pain In My Heart
Gothem City Crime Fighters-Who Stole The Batmobile?
Gov’t Mule-What Is Hip?
Greg Adams-Smooth Operator
Greg Adams-‘Sup With That
Heavy Metal Horns-You’re Still A Young Man
Herman Matthews-Function At The Junction
Herman Matthews-Junk In The Trunk
Hip Service-Nuff Said
Hollywood Hitmen-Attitude Dane
Huey Lewis & The News-Perfect World
Huey Lewis & The News-Small World (Part One)
Jacob Merlin-Madness (Featuring Mic Gillette)
Jazz Police-Tower Tribute
Jeff Tamelier-East of the Caldecott
Larry Braggs-For Crying Out Loud
Lenny Pickett-Dance Music for Borneo Horns No. 2
Lenny Pickett-Dance Music for Borneo No. 4
Lenny Williams-Can’t Nobody Do Me Like You
Lenny Williams-So Very Hard To Go
Little Feat-Rocket In My Pocket
Little Feat-Spanish Moon
Lon Bronson-What Is Hip?
Luis Miguel-Que Nivel De Mujer
Mann Brothers-Afternoon Delight
Mann Brothers-Use It or Lose It
Mark Dolin-Belly Up
Mark Dolin-The Parkin’ Lot Hang
Matt Catingub, New Zealand Youth Jazz Orchestra-Squib Cakes
Melanie Jackson/Sal Cracchiolo-A Night in Tunisia
Melanie Jackson/Sal Cracchiolo-One Note Samba
MGB-Mic Gillette Band-Moondoggie
Mic Gillette-Funky Good Time
Michelle Shocked w/Tower of Power-Barefootin’
Nick Lane, Lee Thornberg, Jimmy Zavala, Luis Conte-Big & Hairy – Nick Lane, Lee Thornberg, Jimmy Zavala, Luis C
Norbert Stachel-Firefly
Norbert Stachel-Likeside Shuffle
North of Soul-You’re Still a Young Man
Orrenmaa Band-Make My Day
Poncho Sanchez-Shotgun Slim
Poncho Sanchez-Squib Cakes
PowerTrump-Flight Of The Archangel
PowerTrump-Twice As Good, For Half As Much
ReUnion-Willing to Learn
Richard Elliot-The Power Of Suggestion
Richard Elliott-The Boys From The Bay
Roger Smith-Fiesta
Roger Smith-Horn-Afication
Ron E. Beck-Because I Love YOU
Santana-Everybody’s Everything
Santana-Watch Your Step
Solid Brass-Squib Cakes
Soulpatrol-Soul With A Capital “S”
Stefan Redtenbacher-Fred’s Haus
Stefan Redtenbacher-Shindig!
Strokeland Superband With Fred Ross-When Little Jesse Hit The Set
Strokeland Superband-Bumped Up To First Class
Strokeland Superband-Kick It Up A Step
The Doobie Brothers-Long Train Running
Tim Akers & The Smoking Section-What Is Hip?
Tony Adamo-Up In It
Tony Adamo-What Is Hip?
Toto-Animal
Tower Of Power-Ain’t Nothin’ Stoppin’ Us Now
Tower Of Power-Don’t Change Horses (In The Middle Of A Stream)
Tower Of Power-Flash In The Pan
Tower Of Power-How Could This Happen To Me00
Tower Of Power-Just Enough And Too Much
Tower Of Power-Nowhere To Run
Tower Of Power-Simple As That
Tower Of Power-Sparkling In The Sand
Tower Of Power-What Is Hip?
Tower Of Power-You`re Gonna Need Me
Various Artists-Flash In The Pan
Various Artists-I Do My Best Work At Night
Was (Not Was)-Crazy Water
Yoichi Murata-Carry On
Yoichi Murata-Positive Sign

For more on Tower Of Power go to www.towerofpower.com

Amy Lynn And The Gunshow

Just added a new song to our Playlist from Amy Lynn And The Gunshow.  The song is titled “Can’t Put My Finger On It”.  This single can be found at cdbaby, link will be provided below.

Notes from the single:

Amy Lynn: “We wrote ‘Can’t Put My Finger On It’ with Alex Forbes and the idea behind it was that feeling of knowing deep down the person you love is up to no good, but you just can’t believe it or don’t want to. When we perform the song live, it’s usually with the entire Gunshow – our seven-piece band. But we were all having trouble coming up with everyone’s part, so I thought it might work if Alex, my husband and baritone sax player in the band, just started jamming. Once he started, everything else fell into place. What you hear on this recording is just Alex and I – his baritone sax and my voice. When we play live shows, we got such a killer response from the intro, which is just the two of us, we decided to record the entire song that way. We performed the song live in the studio at the end of a long recording session with our band. This was the last take of the day. No edits to either parts, just a raw flow.”

Barry Danielian

We just received Barry Danielian’s new CD “Metaphorically Speaking” and have added it to our new playlist.  We are currently playing four tracks from Barry’s CD “Blue Caller”, “Paradigm Shift”, and “Shine Your Light”, & “Turning Inside  Out”.  We also have one song from Barry’s first CD Common Ground.

Below are the liner notes from the new CD:

Trumpeter/Producer/Arranger Barry Danielian has for nearly three decades performed with many of the biggest names in the music industry.Barry’s touring and recording credits read like a who’s who of the music business. Having worked with such diverse artists as Elton John, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Sting, Tower of Power, Queen Latifah, Eddie Palmieri, Ray Charles, KRS One, Public Enemy, Branford Marsalis, Paul Simon, Blood,Sweat & Tears, Tito Puente, James Taylor, Billy Joel, McCoy Tyner, Illinois Jacquet, Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, The Roots and Bono.

Since 2012 he has been on tour with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Barry has been one of the most in demand trumpeters and arrangers in NYC. He is constantly requested by such legendary producers as: Phil Ramone, Jay-Z, Arif Mardin, Randy Jackson, Barry Eastmond, Rob Mounsey and Narada Michael Walden. He is also a prolific writer and producer whose music is used throughout the media industry including NBC, CBS, HBO, Showtime, A&E, The Discovery Channel and Fox. He has two CD’s as a solo artist. “Common Ground” released in 2004 received much critical praise and his upcoming release “Metaphorically Speaking” is due out later this year.

Trained from an early age in his first love, jazz, some of Barry’s most memorable performances have been with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson, Illinois Jacquet, McCoy Tyner, Paquito DeRivera, and Branford Marsalis. Equally valuable in the evolution of his style were some of his first New York gigs, with Latin music giants Eddie Palmieri and Tito Puente. Starting in 1984, he toured widely with these bands over a number of years and began an impressive series of Latin/Salsa recordings with such artists as Marc Anthony, DLG, Emmanuel, Juan Luis Guerra and Ricky Martin.
Barry has been on the “short list” of legendary R&B artists such as The Temptation, The O’Jays, The Four Tops, The Spinners, The Dells and The Whispers.

Barry’s mileage on the road increased in 1985 with the first of several tours with rock fusion giants Blood, Sweat and Tears, and subsequently with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Queen Latifah and Jon Bon Jovi. The early 1990s saw Barry on world tours with Latin-pop star Emmanuel and funk legends Tower of Power with whom he recorded 2 CD’s.

During the mid-1990s, Barry began to realize the reputation he enjoys today as one of New York City’s most in-demand session players and arrangers, racking up more than 300 recordings. His Jingle/TV and motion-picture credits are too numerous to mention.

In 1998, Barry suspended his whirlwind touring schedule to spend more time with his family. As a New York-based freelancer he performs regularly on Broadway and in clubs, while serving on the musical performance faculties at three universities in the New York City area. He still travels both for performances and to give master classes and lectures on brass playing and improvisation for such hosts as Carnegie Mellon University and the International Association of Jazz Educators.

Barry attended the Berklee College of Music from 1980-82, where he graduated with the 1982 Faculty Performance Award. He earner a B.A. in Jazz Performance from William Paterson University. In 1984 he was honored with the University of Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Competition’s Outstanding Jazz Soloist Award, and in 2000 and 2001 became the only unsigned artist nominated for the Oasis Smooth Jazz Awards.

Barry currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he spends most of his time composing and producing when not on tour with “The Boss”.

Here’s Barry’s Page at Spruce Springsteen’s website http://brucespringsteen.net/the-band/barry-danielian

 Our Complete Playlist is listed below, list is in artist order and not in order of play:

***Alias Smith and Lane-Little Buggers
***Alias Smith and Lane-Smile & Nod
***Ambergris-Chocolate Pudding
***Ambergris-Home Groan
***Andreas Aleman-Keep On Keepin’ Funky
***Andreas Aleman-This is life
***August The Band-Long Train Runnin’
***Ava Lemert-Rhodelea
***Back To Basic-Peace And Understanding
***Barela-Tower Pops
***Barry Danielian-Blue Caller
***Barry Danielian-Common Ground
***Barry Danielian-Paradigm Shift
***Barry Danielian-Shine Your Light
***Barry Danielian-Turning Inside Out
***BIG HORNS BEE-Vamp Intro (Reprise)
***Big Mouth/Power Tool Horns-Italian Stallion [Live] ***Big Sam’s Funky Nation-Big Ol’ Booty
***Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows-300 Pounds Of Heavenly Joy
***Bill Bergman & The Metro Jets-Soul Universe
***Bill Withers, G Washington-Just the Two of Us
***Billy Reed & The Steet People-Sawbuck
***Bing & The Bingtones-Bump At The Pump
***Björn Skifs-What’s The Big Deal
***Blast-The Rocket
***Bononia Sound Machine-Can You Feel It
***Bononia Sound Machine-Doin’ It TOP Style
***Chickenhawks-Pocky Way
***David K. Mathews-Four by Five
***Doctorfunk-Better Get Hip
***Doctorfunk-Bring the Funky Back Pt. 1
***Doctorfunk-Second Opinion
***Doctorfunk-What’s Up Doc?
***Down To The Bone-To The Bone
***Dr. Music-On The Road
***Earl Thomas-Do You Remember
***East Bay Soul-Brassalicious
***East Bay Soul-East Bay Soul
***Eli Paperboy Reed-Come And Get It
***Entropy-We Came To Funk
***Eric Bolvin-Suburban Bourbon
***Eric Miyashiro-Ken’s Bar
***Fishbelly Black-Freaks Gonna Rule The World
***Five Alarm Funk-March Of The Latin Zombies
***Frank Biner-Superstar Lady rful, So Marve
***Frank Biner-Whatever Happen to Those Days
***Freddy V-Lisi
***Funk Filharmonik-Everybody Get Down
***Funk Filharmonik-We Get The Notion
***Funkasaurus Rex-If I Ever Lose This Heaven
***Gangbuster-Mercy Mercy
***Glenn Walters-Pain In My Heart
***Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band-There’s The Rub
***Gota Yashiki-What’s Up Charlie
***Greg Adams-Smooth Operator
***Greyboy Allstars-Soul Dream
***Here Come The Mummies-Attack Of The Wiener Man
***Here Come the Mummies-Everlasting Party
***Here Come The Mummies-Oh Zone
***Himlaväsen-Take Me To The River
***Hip Service-Hip2DaFunk
***Huey Lewis & The News-The Heart Of Rock & Roll
***Jack Mack & The Heart Attack-Ride The Rocket
***Jack Mack & The Heart Attack-Soul Man
***Jack Mack & The Heart Attack-Soul Meeting
***Jacob Merlin-Madness (Featuring Mic Gillette)
***Jerry Lacroix-Ninety Nine And One-Half (Won’t Do)
***John Shipley-If You’re Not Callin’ You’re Askin’
***Johnny Sandoval-African Sea
***Johnny Sandoval-Istanblu
***Johnny Sandoval-Los Immigrantes
***Jon R. Smith-You Are So Beautiful
***Jules Broussard-Cajun Moon
***Kal David-That’s Not Me
***King Beez-Against The Grain
***L.A Carpool-Black Moon
***L.A. Boppers-Where Do The Bop Go?
***Line Drive-You’ve Gotta Believe In Something
***Liquid Soul-This And That
***Lon Bronson-Tower Of Inspiration
***Los Blues-Ain’t That Loving You
***Los Blues-If You Must Leave My Love
***Los Blues-The Squirrel
***Louise Hoffsten-Shut Up And Kiss Me
***Luther Kent & Trick Bag-Let The Good Times Roll
***Luther Kent-I Pity The Fool
***Maceo & The Macks-Soul Power ’74
***Malo-Suavecito
***Mandrill-Fencewalk
***Mann Brothers-Use It or Lose It
***Manu Dibango-Soul Makossa
***Mark Dolin-Belly Up
***Maynard Ferguson-Birdland
***Melanie Jackson/Sal Cracchiolo-A Night in Tunisia
***Memphis Horns-Soul Bowl
***Mic Gillette-Funky Good Time
***Michael Grimm-I’ve Been Loving You
***Michael Grimm-Love and Happiness
***Mingo Fishtrap-A Bitta Honey
***Mingo Fishtrap-Dirty Gritty
***Mingo Fishtrap-Without Question
***Monophonics-Agamemnon
***Monophonics-BANG BANG
***New Mastersounds-Stay On The Groove
***Nick Lane,-An Inside Joke
***Nils Gessinger-Soulmusic
***Nils Landgren Funk Unit-Compared To What
***Norbert Stachel-Likeside Shuffle
***North of Soul-Put It Where You Want It
***Ole Børud-Make a Change
***Ole Børud-Shakin’ The Ground
***Otis Grand-Finish Line – w/Curtis Salgado
***Out Of Control-Shake The Nation
***Paulo Mendoca-Respect
***Pee Wee Ellis-How I Depend On You
***Pete Escovedo-Flying South
***Phat Phunktion-Big Bang Theory
***Phat Phunktion-Don’t Destroy The Funk
***Polyrhythmics-Klompton
***Polyrhythmics-Labrador
***Poncho Sanchez-Shotgun Slim
***PowerTrump-Streets Of Gold, Gates Of Pearl
***PowerTrump-Twice As Good, For Half As Much
***Prime Time Funk-Ready And Willing
***Rastus-Big City Letdown Blues
***Rastus-Lazy Kind of Day
***Rented Mule-Feed The Ferals
***Retromeca-Diamond
***ReUnion-Willing to Learn
***Rhinoceros-I Need Love
***Rhythm Funk Masters-Frantic Activity
***Richard Elliott-The Boys From The Bay
***Rick Braun and Richard Elliot-Curve Ball
***Rippopotamus-Fanfare Of Funk
***Robert Peckman-Put It In the Pocket
***Roger Smith-Horn-Afication
***Sage-Funksway
***Sage-Make It Funky
***Sage-Soul Patrol
***Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns-Dat Greazy Thang
***Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns-I’ll Pack It Up
***Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns-When The Curtain Goes Up
***Scott Martin Latin Soul Band-Dave, Doc & Milt
***Scott Martin-Cafe Cubano
***Sharpshooters-Funk Shack West
***Shilts-Stax Of Sax
***Smokin With Superman-2 Sweet Fine Hams
***Smokin With Superman-Around The Corner
***Soul Stew-Doin’ It
***Soul Stew-Love And Happiness
***Soulive-Cannonball
***Soulive-Roll The Tape
***Special Request Horns-It’s gotta be funky
***Special Request Horns-Stereo Music
***Special Request Horns-The Demon
***Speedometer-Four Flights Up
***Speedometer-Safari of Soul
***Speedometer-Work It Out
***Spyro Gyra-Catching The Sun
***Stefan Redtenbacher-Fred’s Haus
***Stefan Redtenbacher-Royal Rooster
***Stefanie Heinzmann-world on fire
***Steve Gadd-Back at the Chicken Shack – Steve Gadd
***Steve Gadd-Bye Bye Blackbird – Steve Gadd
***Stevie Hawkins-Good Times
***Stevie Hawkins-Procrastination
***Strokeland Superband-Bumped Up To First Class
***Ten Wheel Drive-Tightrope
***The Bamboos-Tobago Strut
***The Funk On Me-No Good 4 Me Now
***The Mellow Fellows-I’ve Got To Find A Way
***The Mike Reilly Band-Whos Been Sleeping In My Bed
***The Sons Of Champlin-Tabacco Road
***The Sons Of Champlin-Welcome To The Dance
***The Soul Rebels-504
***The Soul Rebels-Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
***The Soul Rebels-Unlock Your Mind
***The Spyders-I Can Take Care of Myself
***THE SUPERGROOVERS-Super Groover
***Tim Akers & The Smoking Section-Tip Of My Tongue
***Tobb-Bang, Bang
***Tom Saviano-Over The Top
***Tom Scott-Sarah, Sarah
***Tortilla Factory-“Cookin”
***Tower Of Power-Ain’t Nothin’ Stoppin’ Us Now
***Tower Of Power-Loveland
***Tower Of Power-Sparkling In The Sand
***Was (Not Was)-Crazy Water
***Wayman Tisdale-Get Down On It
***Yoichi Murata-Access