◇ image via WikipediaHerb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Sam Cooke, Burt Bacharach and Little Anthony & the Imperials. Those roots explain a lot about how Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Walter Wanderley, Henry Mancini, Ray Conniff, Burt Bacharach and Laurindo Almeida, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Notorious B.I.G., where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 13 connections around Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, reaching back through Sam Cooke and forward to The Notorious B.I.G.. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Herbert Alpert is an American musician who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss.
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Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass connections
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass grew out of Sam Cooke, Burt Bacharach and Little Anthony & the Imperials, shares an orbit with Walter Wanderley, Henry Mancini, Ray Conniff and Burt Bacharach, went on to shape The Notorious B.I.G.. 13 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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