Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

Release Round-Up: Week of June 25

June 25, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses): 50th Anniversary Edition (Grateful Dead/Rhino) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Dead.net (B&W Vinyl) Rhino continues its series of 50th anniversary reissues for Grateful Dead with the band’s 1971 self-titled live album with the famous “Skull and Roses” cover. The centerpiece of the reissue is more than hour of previously unreleased music from another famed SF venue, Bill Graham’s Fillmore West, recorded on July 2, 1971 during the Dead’s final show at the Fillmore West. Highlights include…

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Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Bill Evans, Deniece Williams, Etta James, Frankie Valli, Goo Goo Dolls, Grateful Dead, Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jennifer Nettles, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, The Rubinoos, The Yardbirds, Toto, Victor Herbert

All Rise: New Box Set Anthologizes Herb Alpert’s Discography

August 17, 2020 by Mike Duquette | 17 Comments

There are truly few in the music business like Herb Alpert. A trumpet player, songwriter, label co-founder, sculptor and philanthropist – Alpert is all these things and more, and they’re all due to be on display in a forthcoming documentary, appropriately titled Herb Alpert Is…, slated to premiere October 1. Just one day later, a new overview of his storied musical career is due. The box set Herb Alpert Is…, to be released through his own Herb Alpert Presents label, will compile 63 tracks from his storied studio output – those legendary…

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Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Hugh Masekela, Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

A SECOND DISC INTERVIEW! Have No Fear, Bond Is Here: “Casino Royale: 50th Anniversary” Reissue Announced, Chris Malone Explains Restoration

December 11, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Seven James Bonds at Casino Royale/They came to save the world and win the gal at Casino Royale! Six of them went to a heavenly spot, the seventh one is going to a place where it’s terribly hot… Hal David’s lyric captures just a small fraction of the insanity of Charles K. Feldman’s 1967 Casino Royale, the big-budget comic extravaganza and cult favorite that was “too much…for one James Bond!” And so, David Niven as James Bond was joined by 007s of all shapes and sizes (and genders!), and even by his…

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Burt Bacharach, Dusty Springfield, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

A(nother) Taste of Honey: Herb Alpert Continues Reissue Series THIS FRIDAY

February 22, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Last September, Herb Alpert delivered a major catalogue campaign with 25 classic titles on CD (plus a few select vinyl releases) from his solo and Tijuana Brass discographies. Now, that campaign is continuing this Friday, February 24, with another three rare titles coming back to CD in newly-remastered editions from the original analogue tapes! The new titles, all housed in digipaks, are: Herb Alpert/Hugh Masekela (1978) – Soul, funk and jazz meet up on this first collaboration and fusion of styles between the two great trumpeters. (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Blow…

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Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Lani Hall

A Taste of Honey: 25 Herb Alpert Albums Come to CD on September 9

August 22, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 13 Comments

Herb Alpert is about to release his latest studio album, Human Nature, on September 30, and it looks to be an exciting set even by the high standards of the eternally youthful trumpeter. His fourth album in three years, Human Nature features five original songs plus reworkings of Steve Porcaro and John Bettis’ “Human Nature” (the 1983 Michael Jackson hit), Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Alfie” and “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” and a world premiere composition from Bacharach and Elvis Costello, “Look Up Again.” But before that, Alpert is taking his…

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Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Lani Hall

Release Round-Up: Week of November 20

November 20, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Beach Boys Party Uncovered and Unplugged

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up which continues this autumn’s tradition of having each week packed with box sets from heavy hitters – in this case, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Queen, Grateful Dead, Frank Sinatra, and they’re still not all! Plus: CD and vinyl reissues, anthologies, and much more! The Beach Boys, Beach Boys’ Party: Uncovered and Unplugged (Capitol) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The first disc of this 2-CD, 81-track set features the original 1965 Beach Boys Party! album as remixed in original, pre-overdubbed form and then…

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Carly Simon, Frank Sinatra, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jo Jo Gunne, John Coltrane, Lee Michaels, Love, Queen, Roger Waters, The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Timi Yuro, Weather Report

Release Round-Up: Week of October 23

October 23, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello, Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his recently-released, utterly engrossing memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Featuring songs that “offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book,” Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans the onetime Angry Young Man and latter-day Renaissance man’s entire recorded discography, from 1977’s My Aim is True to 2013’s Wise Up Ghost, his collaboration album with hip-hop group The Roots. In addition, two…

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CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Charlie Rich, Elvis Costello, Harry Connick Jr., Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jack Bruce, Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Sweet, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Rod Stewart, Susanna Hoffs, The Kinks, a-ha