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
I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.
Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.
Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago.
I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.
Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.
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.
It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
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.
Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.
I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.
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.