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
It's powerful. 'Whipped Cream' happened 40 years ago. It still resonates with people.
My first instinct was not to do it. I didn't want to trample on ( Whipped Cream ).
It's certainly an honor. When I got the call I didn't sure how to react, to tell you the truth. It wasn't until my wife's gynecologist called and congratulated me that I figured we were onto something.
With tape, you capture the impact, but you bring in some other elements. Sometimes those elements are good and sometimes, they're not.
This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz and a desire to support its future, ... It gave them the opportunity to indulge in both passions - to celebrate the great artistry of Dave Brubeck, and to support the Brubeck Institute, a program at the University of the Pacific which, through its Fellowship Program and Summer Jazz Colony, serves to train and nurture the next generation of great jazz artists and innovators.
Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are out there struggling to be heard.
Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.
I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.
This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.
We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
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.