Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Schedule
Tue, 13 May, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Taft Theatre | Cincinnati, OH
There are no elevators in the Theatre. All Balcony seats require climbing stairs.2025 will be a Big Year for Herb Alpert. Herb will be 90 years old on March 312t, his classic album, "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" will be 60 years old, Herb and his wife Lani are still celebrating their marriage of 50 years and due to an out-pouring from long time fans, Herb will, for the first time in over 35 years, be touring throughout 2025 with an all new "Tijuana Brass".
All of those great hit songs and wonderful memories that we all grew up listening to will be performed by Herb and his exciting new touring band in a once in a lifetime concert tour.
Hits like "The Lonely Bull", "Spanish Flea", "Taste of Honey", "Tijuana Taxi", "This Guy's In Love With You", "What Now My Love", "Casino Royale", "Ladyfingers", "Rise" and many other surprises!
This show will be an evening with, Herb Alpert and his brand new Tijuana Brass. Herb along with his 6 great musicians will be playing all of your favorite TJB hit songs just as you remember hearing them while growing up.
2025 will mark the 60th anniversary of the iconic album, “Whipped Cream & Other Delights”. Herb and the band will be performing many of those great songs in addition to many other hit songs that we all know; “The Lonely Bull”, “Spanish Flea”, “Taste of Honey”, “Mexican Shuffle”, “Tijuana Taxi”, “This Guy’s In Love With You”, “What Now My Love”, “Zorba the Greek”, “Ladyfingers”, “Rise” and many other delights.
The show runs 90 minutes and is informal as Herb loves to answer questions from the audience about his career, A&M Records and the many iconic artists like Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66, The Carpenters and Burt Bacharach that he has worked with over the past 63 years. The show features a giant video screen that displays hundreds of classic photos, videos, art and various memorabilia from Herb’s music career. A really exciting show and truly a Once in a Lifetime Concert Event!
ABOUT HERB ALPERT
A legendary trumpet player, Herb Alpert’s extraordinary musicianship has earned him five #1 hits, nine GRAMMY® Awards, fifteen Gold albums, fourteen Platinum albums and he has sold over 72 million records worldwide. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass propelled his sound into the pop music limelight, at one point outselling The Beatles two to one. In 1966, they achieved the remarkable feat of simultaneously having four albums in the Billboard Top 10 and five in the Top 20.
Herb Alpert also has the distinction of being the only artist who has had a #1 instrumental (“Rise”) and a #1 vocal record (“This Guy’s In Love With You”). In 2016 the Herb Alpert Presents record label released 40 deluxe re-masters of the entire TJB catalogue plus all of Herb’s solo albums from the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s. In all, Alpert has recorded 50 albums and produced records for many other artists, including Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, Stan Getz, Michel Colombier, Gato Barbieri and Alpert’s wife, GRAMMY winning vocalist Lani Hall, to name a few.
In 1962 Herb co-founded, with Jerry Moss, A & M Records, which introduced artists such as Carole King, Cat Stevens, The Carpenters, Sting, Janet Jackson, Peter Frampton, Quincy Jones, Joe Cocker, Sergio Mendes, Billy Preston, The Police, Sheryl Crow and so many other great artists. Herb is also a wonderful abstract painter and sculptor.
Through the Herb Alpert Foundation, Herb and Lani have dedicated their lives to philanthropy, funding programs that help bring creativity to young students and keep creativity alive for all the arts and for artists young and old, including jazz education and programs that teach compassion and well-being.
