Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
!!GOING PLACES!!
HRB-031
Previously released as mono LP-112, stereo SP-4112, on A&M CD 3264, and on Shout! Factory CD as DK 30765
Tracks:
Side One
1. Tijuana Taxi (Ervan Coleman) 2:05
2. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (George Bassman) 1:59
3. More And More Amor (Sol Lake) 2:44
4. Spanish Flea (Julius Wechter) 2:07
5. Mae (Riz Ortolani) 2:27
6. 3rd Man Theme (Anton Karas) 2:28
Side Two
1. Walk, Don't Run (J. Smith) 1:50
2. Felicia (John Pisano) 2:45
3. And The Angels Sing (Mercer-Elman) 2:34
4. Cinco De Mayo (Chris Montez) 2:15
5. A Walk In The Black Forest (Schwarzwaldfahrt) (Jankowski) 1:48
6. Zorba The Greek (Mikis Theodorakis) 4:25
Produced by Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss
Arranged by Herb Alpert
Engineered by Larry Levine
Gold Star Recording Studios
Liner notes:
This is the fifth album from a group which our abbreviation-minded world is beginning to call the TJB--Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass.
The TJB's previous albums and singles have sold like hot tortillas (and tortillas themselves have been selling faster than ever even north of the border).
"Going Places," this newest musical piñata from Trumpeter Herb Alpert and his men, should do equally well. In fact, their zitherless zing through "The Third Man Theme" took off as a single even before the album went to the pressers.
The reason for the TJB's swift success seems obvious. A new sound nowadays is hard to find--a good new sound. Herb Alpert found it by turning to what is probably (rain dances excepted) the oldest organized sound southwest of Dodge City, the strolling Mexican mariachi band.
It has gained something in translation, including a beat and a bass line the likes of which Pancho Villa have never heard, plus some studio wizardry that gives Herb's brave squad the fire power of a battalion.
What remains, however, to give the TJB its special old-new flavor is the triumphant trumpet--brilliant, melancholy or, now and again, even mocking. It can (collectively) blow down the walls of the plaza de toros, or chant a moonlight duet with the mandolin.
These latest sides confirm what has been hinted in earlier outings by the Tijuana Brass: that the sound carries an international passport and will travel. This is to say, the Alpert instrumentation lends itself just as nicely to the music of Manhattan or Vienna as to the music of Mexico.
It is, in fact, a surprisingly versatile sound. And although the album title is intended geographically, "Going Places" also suggests to me that the TJB and Herb Alpert are still very much on the march, musically speaking. With each album. they discover a new range. They are, you might say, going places.
Charles Champlin, Entertainment Editor-Los Angeles Times
!!GOING PLACES!!
HRB-031
Previously released as mono LP-112, stereo SP-4112, on A&M CD 3264, and on Shout! Factory CD as DK 30765
Tracks:
Side One
1. Tijuana Taxi (Ervan Coleman) 2:05
2. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (George Bassman) 1:59
3. More And More Amor (Sol Lake) 2:44
4. Spanish Flea (Julius Wechter) 2:07
5. Mae (Riz Ortolani) 2:27
6. 3rd Man Theme (Anton Karas) 2:28
Side Two
1. Walk, Don't Run (J. Smith) 1:50
2. Felicia (John Pisano) 2:45
3. And The Angels Sing (Mercer-Elman) 2:34
4. Cinco De Mayo (Chris Montez) 2:15
5. A Walk In The Black Forest (Schwarzwaldfahrt) (Jankowski) 1:48
6. Zorba The Greek (Mikis Theodorakis) 4:25
Produced by Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss
Arranged by Herb Alpert
Engineered by Larry Levine
Gold Star Recording Studios
Liner notes:
This is the fifth album from a group which our abbreviation-minded world is beginning to call the TJB--Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass.
The TJB's previous albums and singles have sold like hot tortillas (and tortillas themselves have been selling faster than ever even north of the border).
"Going Places," this newest musical piñata from Trumpeter Herb Alpert and his men, should do equally well. In fact, their zitherless zing through "The Third Man Theme" took off as a single even before the album went to the pressers.
The reason for the TJB's swift success seems obvious. A new sound nowadays is hard to find--a good new sound. Herb Alpert found it by turning to what is probably (rain dances excepted) the oldest organized sound southwest of Dodge City, the strolling Mexican mariachi band.
It has gained something in translation, including a beat and a bass line the likes of which Pancho Villa have never heard, plus some studio wizardry that gives Herb's brave squad the fire power of a battalion.
What remains, however, to give the TJB its special old-new flavor is the triumphant trumpet--brilliant, melancholy or, now and again, even mocking. It can (collectively) blow down the walls of the plaza de toros, or chant a moonlight duet with the mandolin.
These latest sides confirm what has been hinted in earlier outings by the Tijuana Brass: that the sound carries an international passport and will travel. This is to say, the Alpert instrumentation lends itself just as nicely to the music of Manhattan or Vienna as to the music of Mexico.
It is, in fact, a surprisingly versatile sound. And although the album title is intended geographically, "Going Places" also suggests to me that the TJB and Herb Alpert are still very much on the march, musically speaking. With each album. they discover a new range. They are, you might say, going places.
Charles Champlin, Entertainment Editor-Los Angeles Times
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