Herb Alpert Returning to Cafe Carlyle, 5/31-6/11

Trumpet icon Herb Alpert and Grammy Award-winning vocalist/producer Lani Hall return to Café Carlyle by popular demand, May 31-June 11. Two-time Grammy winner Lani Hall was the lead singer of Sergio Mendes' group, Brasil 66. She was the lead voice on classic hits like "Mas Que Nada," "Fool on the Hill," "Going Out of My Head" and "Night & Day." Herb Alpert's career includes five decades of unprecedented success as a musician, record producer and philanthropist. In 2014, Herb won his ninth Grammy for the album Steppin' Out and was awarded the National Medal of Arts from President Obama.

In the past year, Alpert has composed seven original songs for his latest hit album, Come Fly With Me. The new songs on the album fit perfectly with his interpretations of some of the most popular melodies of the 20th century. Stephen Holden of The New York Times, says of Herb Alpert, "Herb's trumpet solos [are] models of rhythmic precision, tonal subtlety and expressive understatement."

Performances will take place Tuesday - Friday at 8:45pm; and Saturdays at 8:45pm and 10:45pm. Reservations made by phone at 212.744.1600 are $85 ($135 for premium seating, $70 for bar seating) Tuesday - Thursday & the Saturday late show; and $105 ($155 for premium seating, $80 for bar seating) on Friday and Saturday. Reservations can also made online via Ticketweb. Café Carlyle is located in The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel (35 East 76th Street, at Madison Avenue).

As a solo artist and the leader of the Tijuana Brass, Alpert has sold 72 million records and placed 28 albums in the Billboard 200, with five of those albums reaching number one. Alpert is the only musical artist in pop history to have both a Billboard #1 vocal song, "This Guy's in Love With You" (1968) and a #1 instrumental song, "Rise" (1979). At one point in 1966, Alpert and the Tijuana Brass had four albums in the Top 10 and outsold the Beatles in the U.S. Some of Herb's classic hits are "Taste of Honey," What Now My Love," "The Lonely Bull," "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi."

"Making music is a natural thing for me to do," says Alpert. "I love melodies from standards and I try to present them in a different way that hasn't been heard before."

In 1962, Alpert and his partner Jerry Moss founded A&M Records, the largest independent record company in the world. In 2006, they were both inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lani Hall has recorded 22 albums in three different languages; four of those albums were recorded with Herb Alpert and their band. In 1983 she sang the title song for the James Bond film, Never Say Never Again and in 1985 she won a Best Latin Pop Performance Grammy for her album, Es Facil Amar.

Herb Alpert and Lani Hall are the founders of the Herb Alpert Foundation.

Photo by Louis C. Oberlander