Herb Alpert had done just about everything a titan of the music industry could do to cement his place as an essential architect, regardless of genre, of popular music. That is, apart from playing ...

The trumpeter, now 89, is at work on albums, live shows and sculptures, driven by the joy of creating and communicating. “I don’t look back,” he said. “I go forward.” Herb Alpert said he didn’t ...

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: ...