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For over 50 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 brother was the drummer. I met “Doc” Kupka back in 1968, and gave him an audition. He came in the band, and we eventually changed our name to the Tower of Power.”

East Bay Grease defined their sound and landed them with Warner Brothers. Bump City, their 1972 debut for the label, was a hit on both the Billboard 200 and the R&B Albums chart, and netted them the hits “You’re Still A Young Man” and “Down to The Nightclub.” The 70s were a boom period with radio classics like “So Very Hard to Go” and “What Is Hip?,” and the band continued to tour and record over the years. Castillo says their love of the stage is the same today as it was back in 1968.

Tickets $85-$115

For over 50 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 brother was the drummer. I met “Doc” Kupka back in 1968, and gave him an audition. He came in the band, and we eventually changed our name to the Tower of Power.”

East Bay Grease defined their sound and landed them with Warner Brothers. Bump City, their 1972 debut for the label, was a hit on both the Billboard 200 and the R&B Albums chart, and netted them the hits “You’re Still A Young Man” and “Down to The Nightclub.” The 70s were a boom period with radio classics like “So Very Hard to Go” and “What Is Hip?,” and the band continued to tour and record over the years. Castillo says their love of the stage is the same today as it was back in 1968.

Tickets $85-$115

Local trumpeter and bandleader Mike Lewis returns to the club with his 17-piece big band!

Tickets $25-$35

Amendola Vs. Blades
With Opener Jerome James & Friends

Wil Blades: Hammond B3 Organ, Keyboards
Scott Amendola: Drums, Percussion, Electronics

Less is more. Amendola Vs. Blades prove in grand fashion that this idiom applies to music as well as life.

How much MORE?

Well, well - treat yourself to Amendola Vs. Blades’ February 24th concert at Blue Note Hawai?i, and you’ll enjoy one of the most bodacious, infectious, groovalicious and downright JOYFUL sounds you’ve ever heard.

Countless forms of funk and jazz along with pepperings of rock presented by two, master musicians given endless amounts of time and space. Enjoy Wil Blades, hailed as “the future” by the late and legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith, directing his Hammond B3 organ through bumpin’ bass lines, scorching leads and scintillating fills. And gaze in wonder at Scott Amendola, recipient of critical praise for both his talent and creativity and a touring / session musician for a cavalcade of stars, propelling the beat in any and all directions he pleases - high, low, in, out and around the bend.

It’s the jazz America gifted to the world and the grooves that made artists and places like George Clinton and New Orleans famous - served to you with sonic and artistic excellence in a cozy club in Honolulu.

Have a look at the bios of Blades and Amendola below, and you’ll see that this is a show and setting rarely on offer in Hawai?i. Not to be missed - grab your tickets to this musical jubilee today.

Recommended Albums
‘Greatest Hits’
‘Everybody Wins’
(feat. Jeff Parker, Skerik, Cyro Baptista, Rob Burger)

Jerome James & Friends
Jerome James: Drums
Joshua Kaye: Fender Rhodes keyboard
Paka: Keyboards

For over 20 years, Jerome James has been a creative force in Honolulu, whether holding down the beat in a multitude of bands, building and captaining Mardi Gras floats or producing and DJing gatherings of ecsta

The ever-evolving musical vehicle for notorious psych-rock musician Anton Newcombe, the Brian Jonestown Massacre has endured numerous phases and iterations since arriving in the mid-'90s, becoming something of an independent institution in the process.

Early highlights like 1996's Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request showed Newcombe's propensity for melding late-'60s psychedelia with textured shoegaze, while later standouts like 2015's imaginary soundtrack Musique de Film Imaginé took a more cerebral and experimental approach. Undoubtedly, the band's most visible period followed the release of the 2004 documentary film DIG!, which focused on the contentious relationship between Newcombe and Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor. With the film criticized by members of both groups for what they considered to be an unfair portrayal, the Brian Jonestown Massacre nonetheless survived the media attention and moved into a particularly fertile period of creativity throughout the 2010s. The band's first release of the next decade was 2022's Fire Doesn't Grow on Trees, quickly followed by 2023's Your Future Is Your Past.

The ever-evolving musical vehicle for notorious psych-rock musician Anton Newcombe, the Brian Jonestown Massacre has endured numerous phases and iterations since arriving in the mid-'90s, becoming something of an independent institution in the process.

Early highlights like 1996's Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request showed Newcombe's propensity for melding late-'60s psychedelia with textured shoegaze, while later standouts like 2015's imaginary soundtrack Musique de Film Imaginé took a more cerebral and experimental approach. Undoubtedly, the band's most visible period followed the release of the 2004 documentary film DIG!, which focused on the contentious relationship between Newcombe and Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor. With the film criticized by members of both groups for what they considered to be an unfair portrayal, the Brian Jonestown Massacre nonetheless survived the media attention and moved into a particularly fertile period of creativity throughout the 2010s. The band's first release of the next decade was 2022's Fire Doesn't Grow on Trees, quickly followed by 2023's Your Future Is Your Past.