Herb Alpert Songbook Is Out

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For those who keep asking about sheet music for Herb's music: On March 1, 2009 the Hal Leonard Corporation is releasing a transcription songbook of some of Herb's music entitled "Herb Alpert Collection: Trumpet Artist Transcriptions". It's supposed to have 13 songs made famous by Herb.

Titles include: Theme from Casino Royale * The Lonely Bull * Rise * Spanish Flea * A Taste of Honey * This Guy's in Love with You * Tijuana Taxi * What Now My Love * Theme from "Zorba the Greek" * and more.

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You can pre-order it from Amazon, but you have to look under "books" instead of music to find it. As always, please use the Corner link to get there.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1423433858...veASIN=1423433858&creative=373489&camp=211189




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Latest info from Hal Leonard - this is in production with no estimated release date.
 
Interesting they include "This Guy's In Love With You" on the list, considering Herb only plays trumpet on the same few bars twice on that tune. I think a more interesting 2nd Bacharach tune would have been "Promises Promises" instead.
 
I can only guess they had a run on them...

Anyone else see this at Amazon yet, or in stock anywhere else? Even Sheet Music Plus doesn't seem to list it. :confused:
 
Mike Blakesley said:
Interesting they include "This Guy's In Love With You" on the list, considering Herb only plays trumpet on the same few bars twice on that tune. I think a more interesting 2nd Bacharach tune would have been "Promises Promises" instead.
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There could have been a lot more interesting choices. All the songs they picked are relatively easily obtainable, which is the reason that I'm NOT going to buy this. Even if this book did have a real release date.

They should of put Slick, Cowboys & Indians, Love So Fine, Panama, She Touched Me, The Robin, Sandbox, Warm, Robbers And Cops, or the Brass Are Comin. Now, I would pay for that!
 
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There could have been a lot more interesting choices. All the songs they picked are relatively easily obtainable, which is the reason that I'm NOT going to buy this. Even if this book did have a real release date.

They should of put Slick, Cowboys & Indians, Love So Fine, Panama, She Touched Me, The Robin, Sandbox, Warm, Robbers And Cops, or the Brass Are Comin. Now, I would pay for that!
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Those are all selections I'd prefer to see, too, not to mention later stuff like "Dida" or "Fox Hunt." But could it hurt to show support for a book like this and maybe hope for a follow-up that does cover more interesting songs? How often do you see HA/TjB songbooks these days, anyway?

--Mike A.
 
From the Hal Leonard site - this collection offers note-for-note trumpet transcriptions for 18 of his best:

•Bean Bag
•Behind The Rain
•Carmen
•Theme From 'Casino Royale'
•For Carlos
•The Lonely Bull
•Mame
•The Mexican Shuffle
•Rise
•Spanish Flea
•Surfin' Senorita
•A Taste Of Honey
•This Guy's In Love With You
•Tijuana Taxi
•Wade In The Water
•What Now My Love
•Work Song
•Zorba The Greek
 
To be fair, it only makes sense that the most popular tunes would make the book. The vast majority of people probably aren't beating the bushes looking for a trumpet transcription for "Robbers and Cops!" :D
 
No sale here! If they can't transcribe "Freight Train Joe", well, what can I say...it's not worth buying!



:D

Seriously, though: it would be neat to look over a book like this. I got the book for the Herb Alpert/Hugh Masekela album, and it was interesting to see how all of the various instrumental parts fit together. I was able to pick up most of it by ear (I'm cursed with that horrible affliction called "perfect pitch" :sad: ), but there were still some obscured parts that the written music clarified for me.
 
Those are the eighteen most popular? Okay, I can see most of them being appropriate. The ones I find questionable though are the following:

Bean Bag
Behind the Rain
For Carlos
Surfin' Senorita

I would maybe add Carmen to that list, but it's one of my personal favorites, so I'll give it a bye from criticism.

Here's the issue. None of those were really big hits, were they? Behind the Rain is from Rise, but Rotation was the other hit from that album, wasn't it? And the other three couldn't have been that great because they didn't make the cut for Classics, Volume 1 even. So, why were they chosen, if I may ask?
 
Maybe because they're better suited to the "live" trumpet player? Just a guess there.

In the case of Rotation, that song is really a studio animal. Thinking of all the echo, synth etc. in there, it might be kind of hard to transcribe it for a music book and have it come out sounding any good. Again, that's just a guess.

Bean Bag is a great song and I am surprised it made the cut too!
 
My friend Bill (yes -- another "Bill") runs one of the largest and, sadly, last independent family music shops in San Diego, Alan's Music (Alan is his dad). He told me they get at least two copies of every Hal Leonard book when they're released and he called me to tell me they got in Herb Alpert Collection: Trumpet Artist Transcriptions and he's holding a copy for me...

I'm glad they're including "non-hits" like "Bean Bag" and "For Carlos." I just wonder how they'll present "This Guy's In Love With You" -- the trumpet part on that is minimal (and not very significant) at best.

--Mr Bill
 
I used to have a couple of TJB trumpet books in the late sixties and I think these songs were in them. And other stuff. Do you all think that there would be a market for karaoke like tracks of TJB tunes? ......... J

.Bean Bag
•Casino Royale'
•For Carlos
•The Lonely Bull
•The Mexican Shuffle
•Spanish Flea
•Surfin' Senorita
•A Taste Of Honey
•This Guy's In Love With You
•Tijuana Taxi
•Wade In The Water
•Work Song
 
Jay Maynes/Juan Oskar said:
Do you all think that there would be a market for karaoke like tracks of TJB tunes?
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The closest thing I've ever seen to "karaoke for instrumentalists" was the old Music Minus One series but I haven't seen them outside of eBay in years. As for marketability? Unfortunately I think we'd still see the MMO series well-stocked in music stores if there was a viable market.

--Mr Bill
if anyone sees a MMO for marimba, let me know!
 
There are literally hundreds of thousands of karaoke tracks that can be bought, and Hal Leonard Pub. has hundreds of play-along (music minus one) books for every instrument with beautifully orchestrated tracks. I was wondering if there would be a TJB market or is that just something that we "Old Timers" are only interested in. It seems to me the people interested in buying the H. Alpert book might enjoy a CD to play along with??? later.......J
 
I only had one MMO book and record, and it was a huge disappointment. We thought it was going to be a band, but it just turned out to be a single piano accompaniment.

Playing along to karaoke tracks would be a lot more fulfilling IMHO.
 
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