Herb Alpert
Herb Alpert
Herbert "Herb" Alpertis an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. Alpert is also a recording industry executive, the "A" of A&M Records, a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold to PolyGram. Alpert also has created abstract expressionist paintings and sculpture over two decades, which are publicly displayed on occasion. Alpert and wife, Lani Hall, are substantial philanthropists through...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth31 March 1935
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.
I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.
It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.
The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.
You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.
I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.