Herb Alpert Rise

The album marked a triumphant comeback for Alpert, its sophisticated, upscale production blending his signature trumpet flourishes with contemporary touches such as massed synthesizers, disco beats, and orchestral backing. "Rise" was the first Herb Alpert single to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 in over five years. After 17 instrumental chart entries with the Tijuana Brass, he recorded "This Guy's in Love With You", a vocal effort that went to number one in 1968. His singing career was purposefully short, and he continued to chart with the Tijuana Brass until 1974. When he returned to the pop chart, he had a family member and television's most popular daytime drama to thank.

The album marked a triumphant comeback for Alpert, its sophisticated, upscale production blending his signature trumpet flourishes with contemporary touches such as massed synthesizers, disco beats, and orchestral backing. "Rise" was the first Herb Alpert single to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 in over five years. After 17 instrumental chart entries with the Tijuana Brass, he recorded "This Guy's in Love With You", a vocal effort that went to number one in 1968. His singing career was purposefully short, and he continued to chart with the Tijuana Brass until 1974. When he returned to the pop chart, he had a family member and television's most popular daytime drama to thank.

Herb Alpert's 1979's hit RISE still has the big hair and polyester feel of the early '80s, though club remixes… This 2016 release features the title song plus six different remixes.

Herb Alpert's 1979's hit RISE still has the big hair and polyester feel of the early '80s, though club remixes… This 2016 release features the title song plus six different remixes.

This new release from Herb Alpert Presents is the definitive retrospective on the illustrious career of one of America's most unique musical voices, Herb Alpert! Containing 63 tracks culled from 6 decades of the trumpeter's classic recordings, HERB ALPERT IS is the perfect companion piece to the new 2020 feature length documentary of the same name. HERB ALPERT IS will be available at retail on October 2! Presented in a hardbound Digi-case with 3 discs and a 180-page book of vintage photos, extensive song credits, and a 7,500-word essay written by Bud Scoppa. The Digi case is housed in a custom slipcase with a screened printed smoked acrylic window. Release of the CD set coincides with the premiere of the documentary HERB ALPERT IS… A global Facebook streaming premiere event of the movie on October 1 will feature celebrity introductions and a live Q&A session with Herb Alpert. The movie will subsequently be available with VOD outlets worldwide, including iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, plus virtual cinema theatrical showings in select markets.

Digitally remastered edition of this 1982 album from the Jazz/Pop icon. After a meteoric rise to fame as the leader of the Tijuana Brass, one of the most successful groups of the '60s, Herb Alpert focused on running A&M Records, the indie powerhouse he had founded with partner Jerry Moss. His second artistic journey began with the release of Rise, which climbed to #1 on the Billboard chart. His acclaimed album, Fandango, found Alpert returning to Mexican and Latin American sounds and rhythms, but with a modern sound. The result was one of the most acclaimed albums of his career, remaining on the Billboard Top Albums chart for half a year, and featuring the Top 40 hit 'Route 101.'

Beyond is a fine successor to Rise and would be the prototype for many of Alperts following albums Beside the driving title track another Top 100 hit the rest of the tracks are easygoing and pleasant competently played by a virtual whos who of studio musicians Labelmate Peter Frampton contributes a tasty solo to the mechanical The Factory The Continental is not a new version of the tune featured on the Tijuana Brass album Warm it is instead a mild uptempo number penned by Armer and Badazz Alpert also covers the Earth Wind & Fire anthem "Thats The Way of The World".

Beyond is a fine successor to Rise and would be the prototype for many of Alperts following albums Beside the driving title track another Top 100 hit the rest of the tracks are easygoing and pleasant competently played by a virtual whos who of studio musicians Labelmate Peter Frampton contributes a tasty solo to the mechanical The Factory The Continental is not a new version of the tune featured on the Tijuana Brass album Warm it is instead a mild uptempo number penned by Armer and Badazz Alpert also covers the Earth Wind & Fire anthem "Thats The Way of The World".

The high-flying confidence of "Rise" and the experimental bent of "Beyond" began to wear off by 1981, giving way to the more relaxed but musically weaker ministrations of "Magic Man". With Michael Stokes, then A&M's director of Black Product/A&R, co-producing, Alpert came up with a pleasant collection of mostly forgettable, mild-mannered R&B/pop-slanted tunes, plus a fairly uneventful rendition-at-length of 'Besame Mucho' and a redundant cha-cha/disco remake of his own 'You Smile, The Song Begins.' Alpert's haunting trumpet still reflects his post-'Rise' sense of command, but he doesn't have much to say this time; the material holds him back.