My wife and I got to share a serendipity Japanese meal with Herb Alpert and his wife in Century City on our first anniversary. He was gracious, charming, and very knowledgeable. I’m generally skeptical about celebrity, but this was a real gentleman. I very much appreciated how special he made my wife feel that night
What a great oral history about the great West Coast jazz and latin musicians during the '50s and '60s. I got to see Stan Getz in Palo Alto with the Stanford University Jazz Band towards the end of his life, after growing up listening to his groundbreaking Bossa Nova records in high school. I also loved all the happy, rhythmic, melodious music of Herb Alpert and Sergio Mendes, as well. Beautiful interview. Thank you, Herb and Jake!
Herb has the sign of a great teacher when he told his students "just let the notes come out organically instead of trying to impress me." As a trumpet player myself, I find when I forget, and just play, I sound better. We have in our subconscious all of the tools we need (if we have played long enough). Letting go.......sometimes is the best advice. Let our matrix of experience stitch together our words (notes) so we can say something meaningful, and from the heart.
As a 13 year old teenager, i found “Rise”record by a complete default in my small neighborhood record store in Hadera, Israel. That record had a great impact on my life, and I love it to this day. It blew me away when I learned that he owned A&R records..I was like..HA? Great man.
What an interview! Jake you really know your Getz and how to get tue best from Herb. So many pearls about Stan and Herb is so beautiful. Stan was really a great Jewish Tzadik. Mr. Alpha State channeling cosmic energy flow. A true sage and prophet.
As a kid I loved listening to to Brazil 66. There were a lot of musical worlds it opened up for me. What’s wrong with feel good music? Nothing! And later I loved Chet Baker a ton. It is the vocal quality of Chet’s trumpet tone that is long lasting and inspiring. Lots of cats play boring things in every key and can’t play in tune, in time with a good sound. Chet plays a melody with reserved economy and it becomes timeless. And yes there was Chet and Stan live in Norway….wow!That is beauty in contrasts.
Great honest talk !! Herb was one of my hero’s when I was a teenager in Brasil and his Tijuana brass record was #1 ahead of the Beatles !! You could tell he played from the heart and that’s why he was so successful. You could feel the music !!
I grew up listening to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and transcribed most of the songs and incorporated them in my band’s repertoire! He was an inspiration to me to become a trumpet player
Saw Stan Getz at the Valley Forge Music Fair the Summer of 1986. Dizzy Gillespie opened with his Quintet Dave Brubeck was the second set with the DBQ and Stan Getz was the last set. Just an awesome show.
Honest interview! I'm sure jazz musicians do what Stan said it was for him, thinking he was 'standing in front of the wailing wall in Jerusalem & gardening.' And they PLAY !..... May God bless us all.
Many Years Ago As a Kid I Would Read The Writers ✍️ Credits of Every Album It Helped To Be in The Record Clubs I Was in The Columbia House and RCA Record Club and Readers Digest Record Clubs Now in The Mid 1970’s I Was a Big Humble Pie Fan and They Were a A&M Artist The Live at The Filmore Was One Of The Great Double Record Live Albums and One Complete Side Of a Song Called “ I Don’t Need No Doctor “ and The Writers Were Ashford and Simpson….So a Few Years Go By Am Working For Joe Isgro and He Said Miles Davis is Getting All of His Blue Note Remastered and Landed a Big Contract With Capitol Records And Their Having a Big Private Party for Miles Davis at Capitol Records Studio B I Was a Giant Miles Davis Fan Yet I Went To This Party and Who Is The First People I Gravitate Too It’s Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson 😮 I Introduced Myself And Said You Two Wrote That Big Hit For Humble Pie When You Two Where In-house Staff Writers for A&M Records Both Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson Where Floored Well Later Miles Davis Shows Up and Everyone Was at His Party Where Like Just Leave Miles Alone He’s Super Moody 😮 I Went Right Up To Him And Said “” Am One Of Your Biggest Fans “” That Was The Ice 🧊 Breaker He Just Kept On Talking For Over a Hour About Everything Just Absolutely Abstract To The The New Jazz Movement And He Talked a About Prince …..My Favorite Tijuana Brass Song Was “ Taste of Honey “ and My Favorite Brazil 66 Song Was “The look 👀 of Love “ and “ Fool on The Hill “ The Greatest Album Ever To Come From A&M Ode Records Was Carol King’s Tapistry….Everyone Had That Album That Herb Alpert A&M Records on Le Brea Ave and Sunset Boulevard Was The Original Charlie Chapman Studios Or The Little Tramp I Remember When The Muppets Took Over and Hermet The Frog Was Put Up Above The Old Guard Shack 😮 Thanks Again To Herb Alpert Cheers 🍻 To Your Big Ears 👂 Peace ☮️ You Did So Much By Signing The Carpenters and Giving Ashford & Simpson a Break a True Impresario 😊
Last summer I got the Longines Symphonette Herb Alpert LP record collection of 5 records that runs through about 1966 or so. These are extremely high quality pressings and appeared to be unplayed, maybe. For a couple bucks. I ultrasonically cleaned them anyway. Super quiet surfaces and real high fidelity sound. One of the things I like to play more than many others just because of the sound. Herb is still going.
Great conversation. Herb Alpert is a brilliant artist as well as businessman. He is a humble genius, filled with great insights. Quick story: I saw the TJB in concert 50 years ago. Took my high school trumpet to have it autographed with one of those electric engravers. Wasn't permitted to go backstage but the theater kid attendant offered to take it backstage to have it engraved for me. I reluctantly accepted the offer and 20 minutes later he returned with my autographed trumpet. I knew I had been duped when Herb's last name was spelled Albert, not Alpert. I thought WTF. That spoiled my trumpet. To this day, I cringe when I hear people mispronounce his last name.
This interviewer has verbal diarrhea. One example 13:00: Jake: "I'm just, I know, I was just, the other thing that's in my head, I'm just like when, when, when, when you we're doin' Tijuana Brass, and by the way, just for the record, once I confirmed that we were doing this interview I went to several thrift stores and I, I mean, I just found dozens and dozens of Herb Alpert records, I mean it's just, the amount of records that have been pressed, it's just unbelievable - but with the Tijuana Brass and then more importantly with Sergio..Mendes, Brazil '65, did you, I mean, I would like to know, if you heard that 2-beat rhythm from Joao Gilberto, uh..because, you know, I've been interviewing Creed Taylor and Creed, I mean, it was Ba(?), it was known as Samba music, and uh then when Monica talked, um Monica talked Joao out of his hotel room he had, uh, phobias, and he came in and started this 2-beat rhythm and that created the danceable Bossa Nova - now obviously Stan was playing melodically over that...." Herb (mercifully interrupting): "Uh y'know, I don't think so. I think you're off on that.."
@@jakefeinbergshowthank you for the interview with Herb Alpert. This is part of what UA-cam should be for... legitimate interviews with legitimate legends, while they are still here. Thank you.
Tell me a little about Stan's childhood & parents & ill understand ALL that happened to him & what he did & WHY during the rest of his checkered life. It all starts at home! 😮
Herb would have loved seeing Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa; Many sculpturs as good as Michelangelo there. Huge collection. Sam Clemons called it a WONDER of the world. Working on a video now but I also have many on my channel of other great cemetery art trips. ua-cam.com/video/LgLuhWhiBJ0/v-deo.html
Gotta disagree with him there. Stan did both. He played the right thing as he looked for the right thing. Lyrically perfect as he experimented in new ways. It was like he was playing it in his heart a half second before he played it, yet somehow time traveled that half second to be present in that magical moment that we call the present.
Bad interviewer. First you tell Herb how things were, then he has to correct you , because you were not there , Herb Alpert was. So don't talk so much.
@@jakefeinbergshow I guess it is your style of interview. I listened to the other interview also. Your questions start with you giving a recital of your ideas and what you think. I just kinda cringe because here is Herb Alpert. one of the coolest most creative people , and he has to listen to you give your opinion. It is not a conversation . I appreciate the interviews , good effort. checkout Otis Gibbs interviewing Kenny Vaughan ,Otis hardly talks except to get Kenny talking .
Thanks! Among your best interviews in the Getz series!
Herb is a legend. Creative, honest, talented, insightful, personable, humble, and a humanitarian.
Truth
My wife and I got to share a serendipity Japanese meal with Herb Alpert and his wife in Century City on our first anniversary. He was gracious, charming, and very knowledgeable. I’m generally skeptical about celebrity, but this was a real gentleman. I very much appreciated how special he made my wife feel that night
Blessings!!
What a great oral history about the great West Coast jazz and latin musicians during the '50s and '60s. I got to see Stan Getz in Palo Alto with the Stanford University Jazz Band towards the end of his life, after growing up listening to his groundbreaking Bossa Nova records in high school. I also loved all the happy, rhythmic, melodious music of Herb Alpert and Sergio Mendes, as well. Beautiful interview. Thank you, Herb and Jake!
Check out “For Musicians Only” with Diz. That’s the real Stan Getz.
Herb has the sign of a great teacher when he told his students "just let the notes come out organically instead of trying to impress me." As a trumpet player myself, I find when I forget, and just play, I sound better. We have in our subconscious all of the tools we need (if we have played long enough). Letting go.......sometimes is the best advice. Let our matrix of experience stitch together our words (notes) so we can say something meaningful, and from the heart.
Dig!!!
Herb is the man. Heard him live in Atlanta and will never forget it.
A&M Records
As a 13 year old teenager, i found “Rise”record by a complete default in my small neighborhood record store in Hadera, Israel. That record had a great impact on my life, and I love it to this day. It blew me away when I learned that he owned A&R records..I was like..HA? Great man.
Mazel
What an interview! Jake you really know your Getz and how to get tue best from Herb. So many pearls about Stan and Herb is so beautiful. Stan was really a great Jewish Tzadik. Mr. Alpha State channeling cosmic energy flow. A true sage and prophet.
Love Serve Remember
As a kid I loved listening to to Brazil 66. There were a lot of musical worlds it opened up for me. What’s wrong with feel good music? Nothing! And later I loved Chet Baker a ton. It is the vocal quality of Chet’s trumpet tone that is long lasting and inspiring. Lots of cats play boring things in every key and can’t play in tune, in time with a good sound. Chet plays a melody with reserved economy and it becomes timeless. And yes there was Chet and Stan live in Norway….wow!That is beauty in contrasts.
Bam!!
Great honest talk !! Herb was one of my hero’s when I was a teenager in Brasil and his Tijuana brass record was #1 ahead of the Beatles !! You could tell he played from the heart and that’s why he was so successful. You could feel the music !!
Respect…
wow wonderful! and a Stan Getz documentary I would love to see that put me on the list!
You're in!
I grew up listening to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and transcribed most of the songs and incorporated them in my band’s repertoire! He was an inspiration to me to become a trumpet player
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Saw Stan Getz at the Valley Forge Music Fair the Summer of 1986.
Dizzy Gillespie opened with his Quintet
Dave Brubeck was the second set with the DBQ
and Stan Getz was the last set.
Just an awesome show.
Burning
Honest interview! I'm sure jazz musicians do what Stan said it was for him, thinking he was 'standing in front of the wailing wall in Jerusalem & gardening.' And they PLAY !..... May God bless us all.
Love Serve Remember
He said "standing in front of the Wailing Wall and davening", that means praying in Yiddish.
Awsome interview, really enjoyed it !
Love always….
Superb interview.
Bless….
Jake. I love your work man. Great stuff. All the best for NZ, Kere.
Love is real
Last time I saw Stan Getz in concert was at the Wiltern theatre in Hollywood in 1989. Herb Alpert was there too.
Love Serve Remember
The only time...Stan with the great Andy Laverne on keys at City Park in Denver 1979
Many Years Ago
As a Kid I Would Read
The Writers ✍️ Credits of Every Album
It Helped To Be in The Record Clubs I Was in
The Columbia House and RCA Record Club and Readers Digest Record Clubs Now in The Mid 1970’s I Was a Big Humble Pie Fan and They Were a
A&M Artist The Live at The Filmore Was One Of The Great Double Record Live Albums and One Complete Side Of a Song Called “ I Don’t Need
No Doctor “ and The Writers Were Ashford and
Simpson….So a Few Years Go By Am Working For
Joe Isgro and He Said
Miles Davis is Getting All of His Blue Note Remastered and Landed a Big Contract With
Capitol Records And Their Having a Big Private Party for Miles Davis at Capitol Records Studio B
I Was a Giant Miles Davis Fan Yet I Went To This Party and Who Is The First People I Gravitate Too
It’s Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson 😮
I Introduced Myself And Said You Two Wrote That Big Hit For Humble Pie When You Two Where In-house Staff Writers for
A&M Records Both Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson Where Floored
Well Later Miles Davis Shows Up and Everyone Was at His Party Where Like
Just Leave Miles Alone He’s Super Moody 😮
I Went Right Up To Him And Said “” Am One Of Your Biggest Fans “”
That Was The Ice 🧊 Breaker He Just Kept On Talking For Over a Hour About Everything Just Absolutely Abstract To
The The New Jazz Movement And He Talked a About Prince
…..My Favorite
Tijuana Brass Song Was
“ Taste of Honey “
and My Favorite Brazil 66
Song Was “The look 👀 of
Love “ and “ Fool on
The Hill “
The Greatest Album Ever To Come From A&M Ode
Records Was Carol King’s
Tapistry….Everyone Had That Album
That Herb Alpert
A&M Records on
Le Brea Ave and Sunset Boulevard Was The Original Charlie Chapman
Studios Or The Little Tramp I Remember When The Muppets Took Over and Hermet The Frog
Was Put Up Above The Old Guard Shack 😮
Thanks Again
To Herb Alpert
Cheers 🍻 To Your
Big Ears 👂
Peace ☮️
You Did So Much
By Signing The Carpenters and
Giving
Ashford & Simpson a Break a True
Impresario 😊
Bless….
H A was behind the greatest album sleeve art LP EVER! Long time listener.
Whipped!!
As a Jazz Musician, I totally understand how you could sign the "Carpenters" they were original, genuine and from the heart.
It’s all music
Last summer I got the Longines Symphonette Herb Alpert LP record collection of 5 records that runs through about 1966 or so. These are extremely high quality pressings and appeared to be unplayed, maybe. For a couple bucks. I ultrasonically cleaned them anyway. Super quiet surfaces and real high fidelity sound. One of the things I like to play more than many others just because of the sound. Herb is still going.
The end is not in sight…
Thank you so much!
Bam!!
Stan Getz was very human when I met him.
Enigma
Loved Tijuana band.I played all his songs in bands on guitar.
Boom!!!
Great interview
Love always…..
I took up the trumpet because of his Tijuana Brass. Absolutely true, not a joke.
Boom!!
The Tamba 4 me and the sea is amazing !!
Sick record!!!
Stan Getz was a stone genius. No one played sax like him. “Getz meets Mulligan in HiFi.” Check it out.
Genius & Addict
The “take 5” sax guy with D Brubeck, Paul Desmond had a similar sound I think. Stan was a tenor primarily, other fella alto?
Herb is cool.
Cool Whip
BY THE WAY, HIS NAME IS ALPERT NOT ALBERT !!!!!!!!!!!
Stop whining
Listen to streets of Philadelphia track on Stanley Clarke live album..Stanley getz solo
I will. HNY….
Great conversation. Herb Alpert is a brilliant artist as well as businessman. He is a humble genius, filled with great insights.
Quick story: I saw the TJB in concert 50 years ago. Took my high school trumpet to have it autographed with one of those electric engravers. Wasn't permitted to go backstage but the theater kid attendant offered to take it backstage to have it engraved for me. I reluctantly accepted the offer and 20 minutes later he returned with my autographed trumpet. I knew I had been duped when Herb's last name was spelled Albert, not Alpert. I thought WTF. That spoiled my trumpet. To this day, I cringe when I hear people mispronounce his last name.
Many blessings
This interviewer has verbal diarrhea. One example 13:00:
Jake:
"I'm just, I know, I was just, the other thing that's in my head, I'm just like when, when, when, when you we're doin' Tijuana Brass, and by the way, just for the record, once I confirmed that we were doing this interview I went to several thrift stores and I, I mean, I just found dozens and dozens of Herb Alpert records, I mean it's just, the amount of records that have been pressed, it's just unbelievable - but with the Tijuana Brass and then more importantly with Sergio..Mendes, Brazil '65, did you, I mean, I would like to know, if you heard that 2-beat rhythm from Joao Gilberto, uh..because, you know, I've been interviewing Creed Taylor and Creed, I mean, it was Ba(?), it was known as Samba music, and uh then when Monica talked, um Monica talked Joao out of his hotel room he had, uh, phobias, and he came in and started this 2-beat rhythm and that created the danceable Bossa Nova - now obviously Stan was playing melodically over that...."
Herb (mercifully interrupting):
"Uh y'know, I don't think so. I think you're off on that.."
Maybe you’ll like this better little man….
ua-cam.com/video/xdksUXYfAvY/v-deo.htmlsi=QqYSqk3-XlrJGS4s
@@jakefeinbergshow Just trying to help.
Then go out and change your world
@@jakefeinbergshow Sorry, I wasn't intending to hurt your feelings. My apologies. BTW, the Zoot Sims quote about Getz was, "Nice bunch of guys".
@@jakefeinbergshowthank you for the interview with Herb Alpert. This is part of what UA-cam should be for... legitimate interviews with legitimate legends, while they are still here. Thank you.
Tell me a little about Stan's childhood & parents & ill understand ALL that happened to him & what he did & WHY during the rest of his checkered life.
It all starts at home! 😮
It most certainly does!!
Herb would have loved seeing Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa; Many sculpturs as good as Michelangelo there. Huge collection. Sam Clemons called it a WONDER of the world. Working on a video now but I also have many on my channel of other great cemetery art trips.
ua-cam.com/video/LgLuhWhiBJ0/v-deo.html
Very cool!
Gotta disagree with him there. Stan did both. He played the right thing as he looked for the right thing. Lyrically perfect as he experimented in new ways. It was like he was playing it in his heart a half second before he played it, yet somehow time traveled that half second to be present in that magical moment that we call the present.
The thin line beyond which you really can’t fake
Bad interviewer.
First you tell Herb how things were, then he has to correct you , because you were not there , Herb Alpert was.
So don't talk so much.
Maybe you’ll like this better….
ua-cam.com/video/xdksUXYfAvY/v-deo.htmlsi=_GRfOEm6AKHqAsxs
@@jakefeinbergshow I guess it is your style of interview.
I listened to the other interview also.
Your questions start with you giving a recital of your ideas and what you think.
I just kinda cringe because here is Herb Alpert. one of the coolest most creative people , and he has to listen to you give your opinion.
It is not a conversation .
I appreciate the interviews , good effort.
checkout Otis Gibbs interviewing Kenny Vaughan ,Otis hardly talks except to get Kenny talking .
Ask a question without FRAMING IT to your theory
Do your own interviews little man!
Alpert, with a p. Is that hard? Really!
Hush little man!
Fat chance. If you can't pronounce your guest's name correctly you lose credibility.
Chet Baker was hopelessly addicted to Heroin. So sad.
He could still play his ass off....
Stan Getz was not markedly better himself, you know.
Heroin , destroyed so many people and still is .
What a completely disjointed, unprofessional interview.
Maybe you’ll like this one better!!
ua-cam.com/video/xdksUXYfAvY/v-deo.htmlsi=S2LTrsuksMl8zARe
Joao Gilberto was the father of bossa, not AC Jobim.
Child is father to man
Nope. Jobim was the master. Alpert would know…so would all of Brazil