Herb Alpert – The Christmas Wish (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:05 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Herb Alpert’s first holiday album in almost 50 years! Recorded at the legendary Capitol Studios in Hollywood, “The Christmas Wish” boasts a 10-piece rhythm section, a 45-piece orchestra, and a 32-member choir! Alpert’s grand return to the genre features a full symphony backing his iconic trumpet sound, as he brings new life to classics like “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”, “Winter Wonderland” and “Silent Night”.

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Herb Alpert – Rise Remix EP (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:44 minutes | 633 MB | Genre: Funk
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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.

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Herb Alpert – Rise (1979/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:18 minutes | 790 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Shortly before this album was released, Herb Alpert found astounding success with his single titled “Rise,” written by Andy Armer and Randy Badazz Alpert. The single went on to win the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The album that followed expanded on that success with a slew of both originals and covers.

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Herb Alpert – Over The Rainbow (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:53 minutes | 433 MB | Genre: Jazz
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On his latest album, OVER THE RAINBOW, Herb Alpert began the same way he has done for all of his albums over the years: searching for great melodies. That search has resulted in the prolific trumpeter’s latest offering, a collection of 11 classics and 1 brand new, original track. That original song, “Skinny Dip”, opens the album with a quirky, fun vibe before things move on to recognizable tunes from the great American songbook, which are included for various reasons close to Herb’s heart. He felt the danger in the tightrope walk of recording his own version of the iconic “Over The Rainbow”, which was cemented within pop culture by Judy Garland’s performance and many other fantastic recordings. And whether it’s a tribute to Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt on “All Love”, Bill Withers on “Ain’t No Sunshine”, or the great Louis Armstrong on “What A Wonderful World”, there is always a deeper connection and meaning for Herb on every cover selected for this album, making it one of the most personal projects he has ever worked on. OVER THE RAINBOW will be available everywhere on September 20 from Herb Alpert Presents.

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Herb Alpert – North On South St. (1991/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:37 minutes | 970 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Herb Alpert’s early successes revealed a man with a keen sense of popular music trends and melodies. With “North On South Street”, the master of trumpet-pop has once again updated his sound, this time taking on the hip-hop rhythms and dance grooves of the 1990s.

There is a plethora of rhythmic devices, percussive beats, and synthesizers simulating traditional and exotic instruments as well as more industrial sounds North On South Street album for sale. “The Last Dance” features a ticking clock tempo and subtle echoes of clanking pipes before exploding into a tossed salad of musical textures North On South Street CD music. “Passion Lady” benefits from the addition of wordless female vocal riffs North On South Street buy CD music. Coursing throughout all these numbers is his sonorous and passionate trumpet work North On South Street songs. As on the title track, the melody Alpert sets is often the crucial factor determining the feeling of the song. It’s sexy, urban, and festive.

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Herb Alpert – Music Volume 3: Herb Alpert Reimagines The Tijuana Brass (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:55 minutes | 704 MB | Genre: Jazz
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For his forthcoming album ‘Music Volume 3: Herb Alpert Reimagines The Tijuana Brass,’ beloved and prolific musician Herb Alpert has revisited some of his most iconic songs with the Tijuana Brass, and transformed them. This reinvention of historic recordings like “A Taste Of Honey,” “Lonely Bull,” “Spanish Flea” and many more were “scrambled up,” as Herb says. A mix of new arrangements, production, new studio takes and in some case even samples of the originals were used to make them fresh and surprising, and a way for Herb to continue sharing positivity with a world in need of it.

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Herb Alpert – Music Vol. 1 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:42 minutes | 717 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Having enjoyed a career resurgence since returning to regular touring and recording in 2007, trumpeter and pop icon Herb Alpert celebrates his ten-year run with 2017’s vibrant Music, Vol. 1. As with his more recent releases, Music, Vol. 1 finds him reworking a set of well-curated standards and 20th century pop classics in an electronic-tinged, often dance-oriented style. Included are songs by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, the Beatles, and others. The difference this time out is that rather than working with any of his longtime collaborators, here Alpert recorded with veteran Dutch producer Jochem van der Saag (Andrea Bocelli, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé). The result is an album of kinetic, highly animated arrangements reminiscent of the trumpeter’s classic ’60s easy listening tracks, but with a modern twist. For fans of Alpert’s albums since 2009’s comeback Anything Goes, there is plenty to enjoy here, including his Parisian-chanson-meets-midtempo-ska rendition of the Beatles’ “Michelle” and his similarly genre-bending swing-meets-electro-reggae take on the standard “Strike Up the Band.” We also get similarly effective transmutations like the hip-hop-infused “Unforgettable” (which also features Alpert’s boyish vocals), a ’90s-style new jack swing version of “You Stepped Out of a Dream,” and a jaunty, lounge-ready version of “C’est Si Bon.” While the album has a generally lighter emotional tone than Alpert’s Grammy-nominated 2016 effort Human Nature, we do get his lovingly rendered, orchestral-synth accented take on John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Ultimately, with Alpert having entered his octogenarian decade, it’s life-affirming to hear him continue to deliver such buoyant and creatively engaged albums as this. ~ Matt Collar

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Herb Alpert – Midnight Sun (1992/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 51:17 minutes | 975 MB | Genre: Jazz
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With 1992’s “Midnight Sun”, released on his own label, Herb Alpert indulges himself with vintage standards. A strong jazz feel imbues the relaxed atmosphere. The soloist’s treatments of “All the Things You Are” create a cool and mellow version of the Hammerstein-Kern classic. Alpert reprises his 1965 hit, “A Taste of Honey”, with a blue jazz feeling. After pop concerns dominating his work for the previous 30 years, it’s refreshing to hear this album of timeless songs. „Midnight Sun“ is not so much concerned with finding a hit through today’s trends but rediscovering an appreciation of the great music that’s been forgotten.

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