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Yes, it's been 10 years since I created the thread...
Happy 80th birthday, Herb Alpert
...to pay tribute to my favorite musician alive. In that thread, I wrote a 1300-word biography of him. Since then, I expanded that biography to 15,000 words, adding a bibliography and footnotes and dividing it into chapters. Every now and then I update it or add material. Obviously, I don't expect anyone on these boards to read a post that long.
So I'll just say this: when I call Alpert "my favorite musician alive", what I have in mind is his "Tijuana Brass" records from the 1960s. By the time he finished making those, he got sick of that kind of music and changed to other styles, some of which were popular and some of which I like. But they weren't the Tijuana Brass.
This year, at the age of 89, Alpert - still making records and going on concert tours, amazingly - began a tour titled “Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass & Other Delights” in which he plays mostly Tijuana Brass songs in a manner reminiscent of his old style. Yes, even now, as he turns 90, he's still going strong, doing what he loves to do.
Here's wishing his health and happiness for the next 10 years.