Music: herb alpert › Item #124159331

Personnel includes: Herb Alpert (trumpet); Janet Jackson,
Lisa Keith (vocals); Tijuana Brass.&newline;Producers include:
Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss, Burt Bacharach, Jose Quintana, Randy
Badazz.&newline;Compilation producers: Herb Alpert, Larry
Levine, Mike Ragogna.&newline;Includes liner notes by Herb
Alpert and Quincy Jones.&newline;Digitally remastered using
20-bit remastering technology by Doug Sax and Robert Hadley (The
Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, California).&newline;Before his run
at the top of the easy-listening charts, Herb Alpert was already a
music-industry veteran, writing and producing hits for Sam Cooke
and Jan & Dean. Alpert also deserves a place in history as
co-founder and owner of A&M Records, one of the most successful
independent labels of all time. A solid 20-track compilation
spanning Alpert's career, DEFINITIVE HITS covers the
trumpeter/singer/label executive's glory years--the 1961-'68
stretch between &doublequote;The Lonely Bull&doublequote;
and the Burt Bacharach-penned vocal showcase &doublequote;This
Guy's in Love with You.&doublequote; However, it also
conveniently gathers material from the post-Tijuana Brass period
when Alpert specialized in easy-listening fusion hits like the
disco-tinged jazz-funk of 1979's
&doublequote;Rise&doublequote; and the adult-contemporary
R&B of 1987's &doublequote;Diamonds,&doublequote; which
features A&M Records' then-new star Janet Jackson on lead
vocals. But, of course, the real meat of the collection is the
brilliantly arranged suburban exotica of &doublequote;Spanish
Flea,&doublequote; &doublequote;A Taste of
Honey,&doublequote; and &doublequote;Whipped
Cream,&doublequote; along with other fine examples of Alpert's
Latin-tinged pop.