Herb Alpert Signature Series
out-of-print classic albums, plus unreleased recordings, from instrumental pop genius and A&M co-founder, now available from High Coin
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass took the world by storm in the '60s, making instrumental pop the hippest thing around. Out of print for years, the classic albums are being reissued in superb new digipak editions throughout 2005. Each album in the
Herb Alpert Signature Series features meticulously remastered sound, deluxe packaging, a 20-page colour booklet with an introduction by Herb Alpert containing personal recollections and anecdotes, as well as fascinating original liner notes and photos.
Included in the Signature Series is 'Lost Treasures', the first album featuring the original line-up of the Tijuana Brass in over 30 years, consisting of rare and previously unreleased recordings from 1963 to 1974.
Herb Alpert was a 26 year old, trumpet-playing son of a Jewish tailor from Kiev who had cut his teeth writing and producing songs for Sam Cooke, Jan & Dean and Lou Rawls, when he drove south from his native Los Angeles to cross the border with his friend and partner Jerry Moss and sit in the stands at Tijuana's original Plaza de
Toros. Inspired by the general spectacle of the fights and moved by the roars of the crowd and the mariachis who played fanfares between fights, Herb Alpert recorded the single
'The Lonely Bull' using studio session players to form the Tijuana Brass. The single was released through Alpert and
Moss' own record company that they ran out of Alpert’s garage. A&M Records was to become one of the most influential musical empires of the 20th Century going on to sign performers such as Carole King, Cat Stevens, Styx, Supertramp, The Carpenters, Sting and Janet Jackson to name but a few.
'The Lonely Bull' went to number 6 in the charts - and this was just the beginning.
Dubbed Ameriachi in the '60s, the music of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass achieved no less than 9
top 10 albums, 6 of which were number 1s.
"To listen to them is to be transported to a bygone, more innocent-seeming era of cocktail sophistication and Austin Powers-style seduction"
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney (Financial Times)
"Herb was up there with the Beatles in terms of big hits, largely due to his clever mix of dead catchy pop, Mexican street music and latin jazz"
Selwyn Harris (Jazzwise)
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