Herb Alpert born March 31 1935 is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert the Tijuana Brass Herb Alperts Tijuana Brass or TJB Alpert is also a recording industry executive the A of AM Records a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold to PolyGram Alpert also has created abstract expressionist paintings and sculpture over two decades which are publicly displayed on occasion He and his wife Lani Hall are substantial philanthropists through the operation of the Herb Alpert Foundation Alperts musical accomplishments include five No 1 albums and 28 albums total on the Billboard Album chart nine Grammy Awards fourteen platinum albums and fifteen gold albums He has sold 72 million records worldwide Alpert is the only recording artist to hit No 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist This Guys in Love with You 1968 and an instrumentalist Rise 1979 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
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