Herb Alpert is really a class gentleman . Very genuine tallented musician , producer, terrific at finding incredible talent A & M Carpenters , Gino Vanneli , etc ! Incredible humanitarian - Kennedy Center needs to honor this great man ! ❤🙋♂️🎺🎼🏆
After hearing Herb Alpert speak here briefly about philanthropy and marriage and freedom I like and respect him even more now, if that was even possible.
This man is a living legend!!! I've listened to this man play that trumpet for over 40 years. Truly amazing artist. God bless you Mr. Herb Albert love you man.
Herb owes the meeting of his wife (the loverly Lani Hall) to Sergio Mendes. Lani, who lived in Chicago in the 1960's, was asked by Sergio to come to Los Angeles and become part of his "new" group (Brazil 66). She (with the blessings of her parents) did indeed relocate. Sergio was signed by A&M Records during this time, and it there that she met Herb. However, it never would have happened IF Sergio had not asked Lani to move to Los Angeles.....Thanks Sergio, thanks Herb !!!
This was one of the better interviews of Herb I have seen. Sometimes he seems to have kind of a mental "script" of talking points he uses in interviews. I think that might be because he is naturally shy and introverted and having some rehearsed stories and talking points makes it easier for him to handle interviewers. But this interview seemed really relaxed and more a free flow of thoughts from Herb. He knows the interviewer and he was in his own sanctuary so he was totally at ease. I liked it very much. Herb is a national treasure!
I enjoy his music I have my best memories with my father I was 9 years old in that time and I still change my mood and feel hapiness thank you Mr. Alpert your soul and spirit is so nicw express in your music God Bless you is a touch of the gift given by him
This is a wonderful man. I had the pleasure to meet him in 1971 at A&M on La Brea. Very kind, courteous and conscious. Thank you, Herb Alpert, for adding positivity to the planet. You'll never lose your fastball, sir! :-)
Today the main reason I listen & love Jazz is because of the Brilliance & Magic of Herb & TJ Brass, Even more! He opened so many doors for so many Artist, Gato Barbieri, Gino Vannelli etc & worked & collaborated with the best, The great Miles Davis once said ! You hear 3 notes & you know it's Herb,
The very first (stereo) album that came into my families house with our brand new hi-fi stereo in 1965 was "Whipped Cream, and other Delights" with "A Taste of Honey" being the lead track and that was my first time loving music, I was 8 years old, we then went on to buy 7 more of Herbs albums. That's how much Herb means to me.
"Who let you in"......great question......I still remember just sitting beside the older by two or even three years player in HS.........forced me to focus on the music and learn the whole scheme almost immediately in just that one sitting in band class. ....(I did have four or five years of classical piano lessons, but I had no idea how to play the trombone .....but sitting with that guy one time showed me the mechanics and the music and just about everything I needed to know).
He is such an interesting guy! I wished when I was younger I tried to learn more about him. A very unique and creative all round artist. Love his comment on Chet Baker, “he wasn’t laid back he was stoned!” 😂
Expressing your self completely and honestly is very hard to do, as Bruce Lee once said. A true artist mush express yourself and not copy someone else.
So true! 1973 The Great Gino Vannelli & brother Joe drove from Montreal & waited all night in the A&M parking lot for Herb, They handed him a demo tape & the rest was history
Knew him today throughout my eternal quest for belonging in art lol, gosh he was so handsome back in the 60's and still is a very beautiful man. On his music I should not coment becuse as I've heard it for a while now ... oh.
Merece todo mi adorado Herb ! Todos los homenajes habidos y x haber, es una gran estrella!! Nunca habrá alguien como el !! Mis respetos Sr Herb!!🌹👏👏🎺☺️👍👍👍
Boy what! A inspirational man I think the World is such a great place when I listen to some one like His Greatness. Great Interview glad you post it!!!!
Ya know.. Here is what's scary... I can listen to Herb and Read so many things into my own life and what I love, RADIO.. Its odd as he talks about creativity its like, I know where he's coming from.. If you listen and listen you can really read things that this man has to offer. He's beyond awesome.. I LOVE THIS MAN !
Blessed man. He and the Brass kicked butt. He still does as does his wife. Saw them last year here in Maryland in a very small venue and it was so friggin awesome. I almost got to get the personal visit in teh back if I had tagged along, but it wouldnt have been fair to the rest of my family who was there with me. funny, I was watching the interview and the word coffee came to me. LOL.
you should have gone cuz ive seen him 4 times now and i never had the opportunity even. going to see him in feb in napa. may be the last time. i hope at least say hi
watching this again and I have no idea what I said last time. lol. He looking for the word "vibe" when it comes to his art. Keep going Herb as long as you healthily can. He's rihgt. Material things are just a byproduct, when its spiritual satisfaction in physical form we need to get. The spiritual satisfaction we can take with us. The physical stuff we can't.
He is unrecognisable now! He was was such a good looking man in his younger years. His music is STILL very popular and always a pleasure to listen to. His wife is lovely too.
My dad always said, *Close the Door Richard!*... No matter who it was . And now Herb Albert says it. I wonder if there was the same saying that everybody knew that I didn't know. There must have been.
Gred D, Schroeder suffers from an East Coaster's prejudicial and pejorative stereotype of West Coast Jazz, calling it, "laid-back". Art Pepper burned and had a frenetic personality equal to any East Coast junkie, and had the prison record to prove it. Herb mentions his love of Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, and Lou Levy, all of whom could burn, and did. Here's Shorty and Lou from 62: ua-cam.com/video/FcM3kl5wdmc/v-deo.html Eric Dolphy, Mingus, Ornette Coleman all working out of LA garages before going to NYC, I could go on and on about the diversity of Jazz created on the West Coast, often by musicians from the East Coast who made a life out West. I was extremely disheartened to hear an East Coast Jazz educator perpetuate this ugly myth. Shame, shame on Dr. Schroeder.
When you admire your own work, and I know what that feels like, that's objectivity and creativity as in synergism. If you can listen and look objectively, then you know who you really are. I did that with my own video just practicing. It accidentally came on my iPad and not looking I thought it was great...hahahahaha... It was me! We are too critical of ourselves at times.
He stated the reasons why I only support with money/otherwise the innovators in Jazz /Blues/European Classical musics and not those trying to play the same exact lines and ways and then the ignorant who rather listen to imitators vs the original sources thinking they are hip.
Vanity aside, sometimes ageing seems so cruel to folks who, like Herb, were million-dollar "lookers" in their youth. Ah, well, it's who a person is inside that matters.
Wilfredo Hernandez And i take it you have a problem with gay? BTW, take the O off of your first name. The O makes you sound like a fuckin illegal alien. And I DO have an a major issue with fuckin illegal aliens. Go home. Go back to mexico. Now.
So what I've learned here is that, I'll pay 25K for a Miles Davis canvas. But honestly I'd give Herb give $600.00 for a canvas. (not looking for a sculpture) Tijuana Brass Band FTW Come back down to earth. I guess royalties are competent for retirement. Great name drop on Wes Montgomery though. Art is Over Priced Herb, I'm a fan. Help me out.
itsdeville: "ROYALTIES" LOL LOL LOL, try almost half a billion dollars for the sale of A&M Records LOL LOL LOL, not too shabby for mishpocheh straight out of Boyle Heights.
Wow. He mentions strife in the middle east. This was 7 years ago and now in October 2023 the place had exploded. I take it that he leans towards the Palestinians because he says there yearning to be free. I could be wrong. I'll be seeing him and lani tomorrow night in Tacoma Washington.
I'm confused about why I remember his name as Herp Albert. Am I wrong or does anyone else remember him and what now seems to be just a switch of two letters, who would want to be named after the Herpes infections?
After nearly 60 years! Herb Alpert deserves to be a recipient of the Kennedy Award Honors! He is truly a National Treasure
I totally agree, and his music for me is timeless.
Herb Alpert is really a class gentleman .
Very genuine tallented musician , producer, terrific at finding incredible talent A & M
Carpenters , Gino Vanneli , etc !
Incredible humanitarian -
Kennedy Center needs to honor this
great man !
❤🙋♂️🎺🎼🏆
Thank you Herb for taking a chance on the Carpenters and giving them the big break they needed.
After hearing Herb Alpert speak here briefly about philanthropy and marriage and freedom I like and respect him even more now, if that was even possible.
80 years old. amazing. youthful, sharp as a tack
I'd have him!
Love Herb he still looks so handsome.....wonderful creative soul
This man is a living legend!!! I've listened to this man play that trumpet for over 40 years. Truly amazing artist. God bless you Mr. Herb Albert love you man.
The world is such a better place when Herb’s music is playing.
He is my music world.
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass❤
I've been playing the trumpet 55 years all because of Herb; such a great guy and trumpet player. He has influenced and helped so many.
Herb owes the meeting of his wife (the loverly Lani Hall) to Sergio Mendes. Lani, who lived in Chicago in the 1960's, was asked by Sergio to come to Los Angeles and become part of his "new" group (Brazil 66). She (with the blessings of her parents) did indeed relocate. Sergio was signed by A&M Records during this time, and it there that she met Herb. However, it never would have happened IF Sergio had not asked Lani to move to Los Angeles.....Thanks Sergio, thanks Herb !!!
Conveniently leaving out he was married when he met Lani. She's the second women with whom has taken vows.
Herb should think about writing his memoir. He has so many great things to say and it should be written in a book.
Herb, Grande !!!
This was one of the better interviews of Herb I have seen. Sometimes he seems to have kind of a mental "script" of talking points he uses in interviews. I think that might be because he is naturally shy and introverted and having some rehearsed stories and talking points makes it easier for him to handle interviewers. But this interview seemed really relaxed and more a free flow of thoughts from Herb. He knows the interviewer and he was in his own sanctuary so he was totally at ease. I liked it very much. Herb is a national treasure!
Herb Alpert - divinely inspired and talented.
I enjoy his music I have my best memories with my father I was 9 years old in that time and I still change my mood and feel hapiness thank you Mr. Alpert your soul and spirit is so nicw express in your music God Bless you is a touch of the gift given by him
This is a wonderful man. I had the pleasure to meet him in 1971 at A&M on La Brea. Very kind, courteous and conscious. Thank you, Herb Alpert, for adding positivity to the planet. You'll never lose your fastball, sir! :-)
Today the main reason I listen & love Jazz is because of the Brilliance & Magic of Herb & TJ Brass, Even more! He opened so many doors for so many Artist, Gato Barbieri, Gino Vannelli etc & worked & collaborated with the best, The great Miles Davis once said ! You hear 3 notes & you know it's Herb,
What a talented man & his blessed life. Still enjoy his Tijuana Brass work over 50 years later & it's still great.
The very first (stereo) album that came into my families house with our brand new hi-fi stereo
in 1965 was "Whipped Cream, and other Delights" with "A Taste of Honey" being the lead track and that was my first time loving music, I was 8 years old, we then went on to buy 7 more of
Herbs albums. That's how much Herb means to me.
Herb definetly makes me smile.
What a great person.
"Who let you in"......great question......I still remember just sitting beside the older by two or even three years player in HS.........forced me to focus on the music and learn the whole scheme almost immediately in just that one sitting in band class. ....(I did have four or five years of classical piano lessons, but I had no idea how to play the trombone .....but sitting with that guy one time showed me the mechanics and the music and just about everything I needed to know).
💕 love his music!... he looks so different 😕.. we all look different when we age ...no exception!
This is to be expected. 50+ years difference - from being 30 to being 80. Aging as a fact of life. He still looks great for being 80 here.
Herb Alpert still inspires us today. We listen to "Rise" at least once a day in our office.
Bass Players Guild damned interesting bassline, agree. Explains how you get to drive the bus and us drummers are just wheels :)
I still have RISE on 45! The B-side was a good one too.
What a Great Teacher Herb Albert is. He may awaken the Article in All Of Us. May this Happen 😊
He is such an interesting guy! I wished when I was younger I tried to learn more about him. A very unique and creative all round artist. Love his comment on Chet Baker, “he wasn’t laid back he was stoned!” 😂
Expressing your self completely and honestly is very hard to do, as Bruce Lee once said. A true artist mush express yourself and not copy someone else.
It's heartening to see another of my old music idols still around and still very much in the game. Thanks!
Wonderful to see him still going... He helped a lot of musical artists get started at A&M Records...
So true! 1973 The Great Gino Vannelli & brother Joe drove from Montreal & waited all night in the A&M parking lot for Herb, They handed him a demo tape & the rest was history
Knew him today throughout my eternal quest for belonging in art lol, gosh he was so handsome back in the 60's and still is a very beautiful man. On his music I should not coment becuse as I've heard it for a while now ... oh.
A great, great man.
Just like I keep playing "Taste of Honey" over and over!
Best musik ever! (in the day)
Herb Alpert and the TJB. Greatness!
A real legend. He and Lou Adler started out producing Jan & Dean for Doré records in 1959 and 1960. Great stuff !!
I Love these great interviews with Herb Alpert, a True National Treasure...,
WOW! Herb Alpert is a legend and I'm sure that sometime in the future, he will be inducted into the rock and roll music hall of fame.
WOW EL GRAN MAESTRO MIS RESPETO YO NACI CON SU MUSICA Q JEHOVA DIOS ME LO GUARDE SIEMPRE.
Merece todo mi adorado Herb ! Todos los homenajes habidos y x haber, es una gran estrella!! Nunca habrá alguien como el !! Mis respetos Sr Herb!!🌹👏👏🎺☺️👍👍👍
Herb Alpert hombre extraordinario, me encanta su música
Boy what! A inspirational man I think the World is such a great place when I listen to some one like His Greatness. Great Interview glad you post it!!!!
Ya know.. Here is what's scary... I can listen to Herb and Read so many things into my own life and what I love, RADIO.. Its odd as he talks about creativity its like, I know where he's coming from.. If you listen and listen you can really read things that this man has to offer. He's beyond awesome.. I LOVE THIS MAN !
We just saw Herb in San Diego on the July break away rom the weather here in Tucson and it was beautiful and exciting .
You’re so right
The melody is so important in beautiful music
As a drummer I follow Nick Ceroli’s epitaph
“The Music Comes First”
I was introduced to Herb Alpert when Rise came out. Ever since, I am a big fan. He has certainly gotten old but still is a great artist.
Herb, one of my childhood heros
Route 101 always mesmerize me☀️🌈🦄🕊💎
Best interview on living one's life through art.
Beautiful interview, congrats.
Dave always asks questions I wanted to ask. Great artists' interviewer.
A total class act
Blessed man. He and the Brass kicked butt. He still does as does his wife. Saw them last year here in Maryland in a very small venue and it was so friggin awesome. I almost got to get the personal visit in teh back if I had tagged along, but it wouldnt have been fair to the rest of my family who was there with me. funny, I was watching the interview and the word coffee came to me. LOL.
I was there too. Was it the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts? Wonderful concert.
yep. Was great wasnt it? I hope he comes back
you should have gone cuz ive seen him 4 times now and i never had the opportunity even. going to see him in feb in napa. may be the last time. i hope at least say hi
watching this again and I have no idea what I said last time. lol. He looking for the word "vibe" when it comes to his art. Keep going Herb as long as you healthily can. He's rihgt. Material things are just a byproduct, when its spiritual satisfaction in physical form we need to get. The spiritual satisfaction we can take with us. The physical stuff we can't.
Very enjoyable interview.
Same classy gentleman he was back in the '60s when he was much younger, and heading up the TJB.
Long live Herb and Lani!
BRAWO LANI HALL
Herb Albert produced some of the best. Burt Bacharach, the Carpenters and many others. Thanks Herb your an inspiration. Best Dave
SUCH A VERY INTERESTNIG MAN
He was a good looking guy when he was young. Well, I suppose we all were good looking once upon a time. Then gravity happens!
Wow 81 years old ....
My father's favorite.
83 now
a lotta love here for this man. j.
The word he wants at about 14:00 is “detachment.”
I don't know why the interviewer just did not get the drift being a music academic. Pat Metheny also talked about this detachment.
Bottom line: Herb did it the best way.
He is unrecognisable now! He was was such a good looking man in his younger years. His music is STILL very popular and always a pleasure to listen to. His wife is lovely too.
He still looks like Herb Alpert. He looks great
He has improved with age.
My dad always said, *Close the Door Richard!*... No matter who it was . And now Herb Albert says it. I wonder if there was the same saying that everybody knew that I didn't know. There must have been.
I barely googled "close the door" and got "close the door, Richard Song by Burl Ives" yw
❤ Karen Carpenter, Herb Alpert, and Lani Hall , forever❤
Herb....i love youuu..all my life....nice interviu. ...
I would like to put herb and Quincy jones together for an interview ... now that would be something
Imagine Herb Alpert and Lou Adler with Sam cooke and writing Wonderful World.
How do I contackt this Legend?...
Shocked he's older than on."Soul Train" from 40+ years ago :).
Dr. David Schroeder is one of the most intelligent interviewers I have ever seen.
Gred D, Schroeder suffers from an East Coaster's prejudicial and pejorative stereotype of West Coast Jazz, calling it, "laid-back". Art Pepper burned and had a frenetic personality equal to any East Coast junkie, and had the prison record to prove it. Herb mentions his love of Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, and Lou Levy, all of whom could burn, and did. Here's Shorty and Lou from 62:
ua-cam.com/video/FcM3kl5wdmc/v-deo.html
Eric Dolphy, Mingus, Ornette Coleman all working out of LA garages before going to NYC, I could go on and on about the diversity of Jazz created on the West Coast, often by musicians from the East Coast who made a life out West.
I was extremely disheartened to hear an East Coast Jazz educator perpetuate this ugly myth. Shame, shame on Dr. Schroeder.
When you admire your own work, and I know what that feels like, that's objectivity and creativity as in synergism. If you can listen and look objectively, then you know who you really are. I did that with my own video just practicing. It accidentally came on my iPad and not looking I thought it was great...hahahahaha... It was me! We are too critical of ourselves at times.
Yes! He could view his work objectively, as if part of the audience.
It was at 6:57 that I realized I need to pause this because the comments might be really entertaining lol . Herbs not diggin the questions 😂
Lol...yes...😅😅😅😅
He stated the reasons why I only support with money/otherwise the innovators in Jazz /Blues/European Classical musics and not those trying to play the same exact lines and ways and then the ignorant who rather listen to imitators vs the original sources thinking they are hip.
Vanity aside, sometimes ageing seems so cruel to folks who, like Herb, were million-dollar "lookers" in their youth. Ah, well, it's who a person is inside that matters.
... for some strange reason I'm distracted... all I can think about is whipped cream... weird
icecreamforcrowhurst
I know what you mean.
That album cover girl ...!
U must be gay
Wilfredo Hernandez
And i take it you have a problem with gay?
BTW, take the O off of your first name.
The O makes you sound like a fuckin illegal alien.
And I DO have an a major issue with fuckin illegal aliens.
Go home.
Go back to mexico. Now.
One thing I would ask him is "is that really just two trumpets and one T-bone on those TJ brass songs or how much overdubbing is going on?"
Wasn't it he who convinced Newband to change its name to Atlantic Starr?
Herb is very witty, I like his sense of humor… Too bad the interviewer isn’t responsive… like a Chris Farley interview with Sir Paul
So what I've learned here is that, I'll pay 25K for a Miles Davis canvas. But honestly I'd give Herb give $600.00 for a canvas. (not looking for a sculpture) Tijuana Brass Band FTW Come back down to earth. I guess royalties are competent for retirement. Great name drop on Wes Montgomery though. Art is Over Priced Herb, I'm a fan. Help me out.
itsdeville: "ROYALTIES" LOL LOL LOL, try almost half a billion dollars for the sale of A&M Records LOL LOL LOL, not too shabby for mishpocheh straight out of Boyle Heights.
itsdeville - I’m sure Alpert doesn’t have to worry about what he can get for an artwork. It’s a hobby, not his livlihood.
Why don't they mention there daughter
Wow. He mentions strife in the middle east. This was 7 years ago and now in October 2023 the place had exploded. I take it that he leans towards the Palestinians because he says there yearning to be free. I could be wrong. I'll be seeing him and lani tomorrow night in Tacoma Washington.
There was another war in 2014. Netanyahu has been in power off and on since 1996. Why?
Yes the Kennedy Awards should have happened years ago. Maybe under President Trump.
I'm confused about why I remember his name as Herp Albert. Am I wrong or does anyone else remember him and what now seems to be just a switch of two letters, who would want to be named after the Herpes infections?