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Herb Alpert is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Michael Zager Band, Mezzoforte, Pages, Burt Bacharach and Sam Cooke. Those roots explain a lot about how Herb Alpert arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, George Benson, Henry Mancini, Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Pharcyde, Hugh Masekela, The Notorious B.I.G., Soul Asylum and Joe Sample, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Herb Alpert, reaching back through Michael Zager Band and forward to The Pharcyde. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Herb Alpert connections
Herb Alpert grew out of Michael Zager Band, Mezzoforte, Pages and Burt Bacharach, shares an orbit with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, George Benson, Henry Mancini and Lee Ritenour, went on to shape The Pharcyde, Hugh Masekela, The Notorious B.I.G. and Soul Asylum. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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