I don’t know how I missed this
one. Legendary trumpet, trombone player, and founding member of Oakland-based
Tower of Power Mic Gillette died last month of a sudden heart attack, at the
age of 64.
Thanks in great measure to
Gillette, Tower of Power’s horn section has several times been ranked among the
best of its kind.
Gillette was a musical prodigy,
reading music by the age of four.
Gillette was instrumental in bringing
the “Music in the Schools” program to Bay Area aspiring musicians.
Although Gillette stopped playing
with the band in the mid-1980s, he still can be heard on such great TOP hits as
“You’re Still a Young Man,” “So Very Hard to Go,” and “What is Hip.” I can
still remember seeing them in the early 1970s in San Francisco, although it was
so long ago that I cannot recall the venue.
The great music still lives on!
Mic Gillette [1951 – 2016]
© 02/15/2016
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