The first time Herb Alpert picked ... Orleans of a 14-foot trumpet player. Art has been a great off-shoot of what I do.” After decades of performing and making music, Alpert says yes, he has ...

Born on the East Side of Los Angeles in Boyle Heights during the Great Depression, Herb Alpert ... his trumpet first snatched out of the sky at a time we can only now access through the music.

Trumpet legend Herb Alpert once out-sold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the same year with Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’ “Whipped Cream & Other Delights,” the No. 1-selling album ...

At 88, Herb Alpert still plays the trumpet like the perky wunderkind who, leading the Tijuana Brass, made the title track of The Lonely Bull a Top 10 hit in 1962. Oh, and the record also kicked ...

Alpert's appropriately titled album 50 is out now. By Gary Graff Herb Alpert laughs when he ... But the 89-year-old trumpet-playing music legend has a ready answer. “I have to explain to her ...