5 Things to Know - The Oakland Press

Tower of Power has been celebrating its "50 Years of Funk & Soul" a couple of years now.

The brass-fueled group formed during 1968 in Oakland, Calif., and released its first album during 1970. During June of 2018 it welcomed back several of its alumni, including "Saturday Night Live" band leader Lenny Pickett, for a concert at the Fox Theater in Oakland, which was filmed for a live album and video coming out Friday, March 26 -- and which has been airing on PBS.