Jazz Articles about Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert & Lani Hall Live: Anything Goes

by Edward Blanco
January 7, 2010

Though trumpet legend Herb Alpert and wife Lani Hall have been together for more than three decades, it's hard to believe that Anything Goes is their very first album together. A musician and entrepreneur, Alpert is best known for his work in the 1960s with his Tijuana Brass, five number one hits, eight Grammy Awards and fifteen gold albums. As co-founder of A&M Records, Alpert's impact on music has been even greater. After signing Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 to ...

Herb Alpert / Lani Hall: Anything Goes

by Nicholas F. Mondello
August 17, 2009

There is a very unique characteristic that permeates this CD from beat one throughout its entirety. And, given that this effort was recorded across a series of live performances, it makes trumpeter/vocalist Herb Alpert and vocalist Lani Hall's Anything Goes all the more special. That characteristic is intimate, and the result of that intimacy is joyous listening. While this is their first combined CD, Hall and Alpert are certainly no strangers--they have been married since 1973. Their ...

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass: Whipped Cream and Other Delights

by David Rickert
May 25, 2005

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Whipped Cream and Other Delights Shout! Factory 2005

One time in high school I flipped through my parents' records hoping that they might have purchased some Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd albums without my knowledge. No such luck, but tucked in between Barbara Streisand and John Denver was a copy of Whipped Cream and Other Delights. “This must be great. Look at the cover! I thought ...

Herb Alpert Triple Play from Shout! Factory

by Charlie B. Dahan
March 7, 2005

Shout! Factory has just released three excellent reissues of Herb Alpert and His Tijuana Brass Band. This record company truly understands what it takes to successfully re-release an album: remaster the sound without removing the original charm, add new insight (essays and in this case recollections from Alpert) and stay true to the original artwork. Instead of adding extra recordings to each of the Alpert reissues, Shout! Factory compiled them on one master entitled Lost Treasures. The first two albums ...

Herb Alpert: Definitive Hits

by AAJ Staff
January 22, 2003

How self-serving can one musical genius be to have a label he co-founded release a collection of his best-loved songs?

But this is not just any self-serving genius. This is the guy who brought the world Dolores Ericson covered in shaving foam. This is the self-serving genius who scored the best James Bond film that wasn’t really a James Bond film ever. This is the self-serving genius who set the music to elevators and waiting rooms around the world.

This ...

Herb Alpert: Second Wind

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 1997

Herb Alpert has been around for ever or so it seems. When I think back to the times when I was growing up listening to the ' Spanish Flea ' and ' El Presidente ' with the Tijuana Brass in 1964 , Herb's music has moved with the times like a vintage wine maturing with age and now boasts thirty-three albums recorded over four decades. The seventies brought us the number one selling single and album ...