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Saturday Night Music, October 24: Santana and Tower of Power at Montreux, “What Is Hip?”, 2006

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Posted in Music, Health, Tower of Power, Health Care/The Public Option
Tags: California, African Americans, The Seventies, Latinos, Tower of Power, Francis Prestia, Rocco Prestia, Francis "Rocco" Prestia, Monk Montgomery, Larry Graham, Louis Johnson, 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival, Charlie Haden, "Bass Player Magazine", Central Time, "So Very Hard to Go", "What Is Hip?", Lenny Williams, Chester Thompson, Billboard Top 100, Jaco Pastorius, The Brothers Johnson, Italian Americans


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