Herb Alpert Is…
“HERB ALPERT IS…,” a documentary about the life of the musician, A&M RECORDS co-founder and latter-day philanthropist, painter and sculptor will premiere on OCTOBER 1st via a global FACEBOOK LIVE Event. The film, being distributed by specialty house ABRAMORAMA, features rare footage from ALPERT’s remarkable life as told from the perspective of colleagues like Sting, Questlove, Quincy Jones, Richard Carpenter, Bill Moyers and others. The October 1st event will be followed with a live Q&A with ALPERT and the film’s director JOHN SCHEINFELD (“Chasing TRANE: The JOHN COLTRANE Documentary,” “The U.S. vs. JOHN LENNON,” “Who Is HARRY NELSON?”), moderated by GRAMMY MUSEUM Artistic Director SCOTT GOLDMAN The movie will hit theaters, Video on Demand and be available in both DVD & Blu Ray at Amazon and other music retailers.
A career-spanning HERB ALPERT Box Set will be released on OCTOBER 2nd in LP format featuring a coffee-table book and a five-piece 180-gram vinyl set, and as a three-CD set. Both physical formats will feature 63 songs spanning five decades of ALPERT’s career, 180 pages of vintage photos, liner notes and an essay from respected music journalist BUD SCOPPA.
At the height of his career in the ’60s, Grammy Award winner HERB ALPERT sold over 72 million records. In 1966 Herb had five albums in the Top 20 at one time and was outselling THE BEATLES 2 to 1 with hits like “A Taste of Honey”, “The Lonely Bull”, “Spanish Flea”, “Tijuana Taxi” and “What Now My Love.” This film also features the songs “Rise”, “This Guy’s In Love With You”, “Route 101” and many, many other great songs!
More info available at www.herbalpertis.com