Herb Alpert aims to uplift the world and celebrate creativity in two recent albums
by By Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times
Sep 25, 2017
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - While walking from his sculpture and painting studios to his recording studio on a typically Pacific-breezy afternoon, trumpeter, A&M Records co-founder and philanthropist Herb Alpert paused to describe his first brush with a horn.
It was at a music appreciation class when he was a kid, Alpert, 82, said during a tour of his oceanfront Malibu property. He arrived to find a table full of instruments, including a trumpet.
"As soon as I started to make a noise that made sense, man, this trumpet was talking for me," he says,
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