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Bandleader who had several big instrumental hits in 1960s with his band, the Tijuana Brass. First big hit was "The Lonely Bull" in 1963. He and the Brass followed that with other big hits like "Tijuana Taxi", "Spanish Flea" (familiar to some as "the Dating Game song"), "A Taste of Honey", and "Zorba the Greek". It wasn`t until he decided to try a vocal that he finally hit #1 on the Billboard charts with "This Guy`s in Love With You" in 1968. After the breakup of the Tijuana Brass, Alpert was out of the public eye until his comeback album, Rise, hit the charts in 1979. That album produced his first instrumental #1, "Rise". After several mediocre attempts after that, Alpert laid low and then resurfaced in 1987 with a more modern jazz/funk sound with "Keep Your Eye on Me".
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes With tape, you capture the impact, but you bring in some other elements. Sometimes those elements are good and sometimes, they`re not. I find that it`s nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else`s feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself. The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I`ve had offers to perform from around the world and I`m tempted to do it. I`ve got itchy lips. I don`t think radio is selling records like they used to. They`d hawk the song and hawk the artist and you`d get so excited, you`d stop your car and go into the nearest record store. The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure. Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it`s going to come back to you. He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music. I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit. It`s very clean. With tape, you get noise. You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage. I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. There`s something interesting about playing live; you`re in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial. We were like a trial for the digital process, and I found that in that particular timeframe, there were too many problems with it. I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. This was during a period when I was producing Brazil `66 records and got infected by Brazilian music. I`m an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million. Instrumental music can spread the international language. I was obligated to do a bunch of concerts and a television show, but something in my stomach was telling me this wasn`t what I wanted to do. I practice every day. I`ve been doing it since I was eight. We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show. I never thought of myself as a trumpet player in the traditional sense: I never played in a big band... I didn`t struggle the normal way. If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you`re getting more of those on the record. When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that`s the time to try to let other people know about it. It`s - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that`s excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers. I`m sure I`ll go back again and record in the digital process. I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose. The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It`s something I will always do. Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes. | ||
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