{"id":51709,"date":"2019-07-25T11:55:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T10:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=51709"},"modified":"2019-07-25T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T10:55:13","slug":"herb-alpert-releases-new-album-over-the-rainbow-on-september-20-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/07\/herb-alpert-releases-new-album-over-the-rainbow-on-september-20-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Herb Alpert Releases New Album Over The Rainbow On September 20, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>On September 20, 2019, legendary and Grammy winning musician, producer, creator and artist Herb Alpert will release his newest album &#8216;Over The Rainbow&#8217;, a 12 song collection that includes one original track and a cadre of classic and well known interpreted tunes performed in a way that only Alpert can deliver.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pre-order for the album began on July 24th and\u00a0the first single, &#8216;Skinny Dip&#8217; is available as an instant download when you pre-order\u00a0(on iTunes and Amazon).\u00a0The second single,\u00a0&#8216;Fantasy&#8217;\u00a0will be available on August 23rd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pre-Order Herb Alpert \u2013 &#8216;Over The Rainbow&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/smarturl.it\/HAOverTheRainbow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As one of the worlds most renowned and celebrated trumpet players, Alpert has once again broken the mold with a collection of songs that spans decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis project started like all of the other albums that I have recorded throughout the years, including the Tijuana Brass projects.\u00a0 I am always looking for good melodies to play and if it is a familiar song that I am working on, I\u2019ll try to do it in a way that it\u2019s never been heard before,\u201d says Alpert. \u201cWhen choosing songs, I look for something that makes you feel good, I have learned to become an audience to my own music and listen to what creates feelings that stop and call you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recorded at both Alpert\u2019s studio and at famed Grammy winning and multi-nominated engineer, arranger and mixer Jochem van der Saag\u2019s studio, &#8216;Over The Rainbow&#8217; was recorded in eight months and boasts a roster of pop, classic and international hits that are familiar to all ages. The first song on the album is\u00a0 &#8216;Skinny Dip&#8217;, an original co-written and produced by Alpert, followed by 11 others including,\u00a0 &#8216;Ain\u2019t No Sunshine&#8217;, &#8216;All Love&#8217;, &#8216;Fantasy&#8217;, &#8216;Over The Rainbow&#8217;, &#8216;Copacabana&#8217;, &#8216;With You I\u2019m Born Again&#8217;, &#8216;You Are So Beautiful&#8217;, &#8216;Nature Boy&#8217;, &#8216;Always On My Mind&#8217;, &#8216;South Of The Border&#8217;, and &#8216;What A Wonderful World&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reflecting on the choice of songs for the new release, Alpert says,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOriginal songs must have a melody that is fun for me to play, like \u2018Skinny Dip,\u2019 a little quirky, but fun. It\u2019s always a bit dangerous to tackle a song like \u2018Somewhere Over The Rainbow\u2019, that has the iconic Judy Garland recording (and many other great recordings), but I like this version and the way that it starts with Michael Shapiro singing part of the opening refrain and the beautiful orchestration by Eduardo del Barrio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe song\u00a0 \u2018Nature Boy\u2019 arranged by Jochem Van der Saag, is also close to my heart, having personally known and spent some interesting times with the composer, Eden Abez, who lived his life as the real nature boy. \u2018All Love,\u2019 was written by Babik Reinhart, a beautiful tribute to his incredibly talented father, Django Reinhardt, who had his own, unique, Gypsy guitar style. \u2018You Are So Beautiful,\u2019 is how I feel about my wife and \u2018angel,\u2019 Lani.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;\u2018Always on my Mind\u2019, was taking a chance on a familiar country song that just feels good to me in its new setting as an instrumental and \u2018Fantasy,\u2019 is a song that I\u2019ve always liked that was written by Maurice White and Eduardo Del Barrio and also arranged by Eduardo. \u2018Ain\u2019t No Sunshine,\u2019\u00a0is\u00a0that iconic recording by Bill Withers and I tried to put the Herb Alpert spin on it, with Hussain Jiffry singing along with my wife, Lani Hall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/05\/herb-alpert-what-a-wonderful-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wonderful World<\/a>\u2019, is a tribute to the great, Louis Armstrong. My intention was not to cover his record, but to show how it had an international impact and to highlight the power of music as a tool to help us understand each other and bring more light into the world, so that peace will have a much better chance to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Herb Alpert and 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 since-unmatched feat of simultaneously having four albums in the Top 10\u2013 and five in the Top 20. Herb Alpert also has the distinction of being the only artist in history who has scored a #1 instrumental and a #1 vocal single on the charts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass\u2019 fourteen Top 40 singles include; &#8216;The Lonely Bull&#8217;, &#8216;Mexican Shuffle&#8217;, &#8216;Spanish Flea&#8217;, GRAMMY\u00ae-winners &#8216;A Taste Of Honey&#8217; and &#8216;What Now My Love&#8217;, and the #1 hits &#8216;This Guy\u2019s In Love With You&#8217;, and &#8216;Rise&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2016 the Herb Alpert Presents record label released 30 deluxe re-masters of the entire TJB catalogue plus all of Herb\u2019s solo albums from the \u201870s, \u201880s, \u201890s.\u00a0 In all, Alpert has recorded over forty albums and produced for many other artists, including Sergio Mendes &amp; Brasil \u201966, Stan Getz, Michel Colombier, Gato Barbieri and Alpert\u2019s wife, GRAMMY winning vocalist Lani Hall, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As an industry leader, Alpert\u2019s commitment to artists with personal vision guided A&amp;M Records (with partner Jerry Moss) from a Hollywood garage operation into one of the most successful independent record labels in music history that started in 1962 with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Stars including Janet Jackson, Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendes &amp; Brasil \u201966, Stan Getz, Cat Stevens, Supertramp, The Carpenters, Carole King, Sheryl Crow, Peter Frampton, The Police and scores of others that are evidence of the consistent quality and diversity of the A&amp;M Records family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2006, Alpert and Moss were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in recognition of their accomplishments and are a part of the Grammy Museum\u2019s \u201dIcons of the Music Industry\u201d series. In 2013 Herb Alpert was awarded The National Medal of Arts Award by President Barack Obama for his musical, philanthropic and artistic contributions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Over The Rainbow&#8217; will available on all digital outlets on September 20, 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_51077\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GqXB5KXX_bI?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" 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