Maybe the deja vu hits when you hear the bassline. Maybe it takes a little longer. Maybe you get three minutes and nine seconds of the way into "Rise," the flukey jazz-funk instrumental that hit #1 ...

Odd fact about the 1960s pop-music scene: Herb Alpert, who with his Tijuana Brass instrumental group was one of the decade's most successful recording acts, had his only No. 1 single on a vocal: ...

How self-serving can one musical genius be to have a label he co-founded release a collection of his best-loved songs? But this is not just any self-serving genius. This is the guy who brought the ...

Trumpet legend Herb Alpert once out-sold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the same year with Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’ “Whipped Cream & Other Delights,” the No. 1-selling album of 1966.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with a legend of jazz, Herb Alpert, who has just released his 50th album. It is called "50." Herb Alpert has a new album that brings together lessons he says he's learned from ...