Every Christmas Eve my family gathers at my mother's house located in a Tijuana middle class suburb near the old Caliente Racetrack to have tamales, turkey and liters of calientitos (Mexican Christmas ...

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass was not only a band that borrowed the city’s name: their sound became synonymous with a desire for a metropolitan Tijuana, a city that might be similar to San Diego, ...

Legendary trumpeter, composer, and A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert is bringing his iconic sound back to the stage for an evening with his brand-new Tijuana Brass at the Tobin Center for the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Consider the three top-selling-album artists of the 1960s: The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. Each act has been subjected to endless examination ...

There was a time when Herb Alpert thought he wasn't interested in going back out on the road. He thought the audiences he would be playing to would only want to hear his Tijuana Brass and solo hits ...

Julius Wechter's Baja Marimba Band was, in his own words, "... like the Tijuana Brass' bad little brothers. Herb [Alpert] and his group would dress in tuxedos and put on a tight, professional ...

Compiling a pop-music soundtrack for the '60s? You'd probably include some Beatles, some Elvis, a helping of Motown, too. If you stopped there, your list would have one glaring omission on the list of ...

3 Video: 'Cool' in Rehearsals for WEST SIDE STORY at Paper Mill Playhouse 4 Photos: Get a First Look at WEST SIDE STORY at Paper Mill Playhouse Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass perform all of your ...

This first night of Hanukkah falls on Christmas Eve this year, a collision of holidays that — for me, at least — inevitably brings to mind all the classic Christmas songs that have been written by ...

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: ...

This holiday season inevitably brings to mind all the classic Christmas songs that have been written by Jews. Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” is the big blini, of course, having been covered more ...