Herb Alpert To Reform Iconic Tijuana Brass Band For 2025 US Tour Dates

Legendary musician, artist, record label executive, and philanthropist Herb Alpert has announced he will reform his iconic Tijuana Brass Band for the first time in over 40 years for a string of US tour dates in 2025. With an all-new lineup, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass & Other Delights will commemorate the 60th anniversary of his historic album Whipped Cream & Other Delights performing hits like “The Lonely Bull,” “Spanish Flea,” “Taste of Honey” and “This Guy’s In Love With You.” The tour will also include a once-in-a-lifetime performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on March 31st celebrating Alpert’s landmark 90th birthday. Get more Herb Alpert here. See below for the full list of tour dates with many more to be announced throughout the year. 

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass & Other Delights Tour Dates:

• 02/11 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts
• 02/12 - Sarasota, FL @ Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
• 02/13 - Orlando, FL @ Dr Phillips Center Steinmetz Hall
• 02/15 - Augusta, GA @ Miller Theater
• 02/16 - Lexington, KY @ Lexington Opera House
• 03/25 - Detroit, MI @ Masonic Cathedral Theatre
• 03/26 - Akron, OH @ Goodyear Theater
• 03/28 - Buffalo, NY @ Buffalo State Performing Arts Center
• 03/29 - Boston, MA @ Shubert Wang Theatre
• 03/31 - New York, NY @ Jazz at Lincoln Center - Rose Theater

Earlier this fall, Herb Alpert marked another extraordinary milestone in his storied six-decade music career with the release of his 50th studio album titled 50. The album also commemorates another significant landmark as it celebrates 50 years of marriage to his wife, collaborator, and touring partner, Lani Hall; their golden anniversary. 50 debuted at #4 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart, #17 on the Billboard Jazz Chart, and #1 on the Current Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and has continued to claim the top spot for three weeks in a row and counting. 

Alpert recently sat down with The New York Times at his home in Malibu and discussed 50, his iconic career, his marriage to Lani, touring, and his work as an artist/sculptor. Of the new album, they raved “The sound he got from his instrument - clean in tone, tidy in arrangement and joyous in character - also speaks of consistency. From the first note of the opening track, ‘Dancing Down 50th Street,’ his playing evokes the brisk and flirty mood of his ‘60s hits, from ‘A Taste of Honey’ to ‘Spanish Flea,’ a sound that represents midcentury modern culture as eloquently as an Eames chair or an Ossie Clark frock.” 50 also earned critical acclaim from NPR, Billboard, Associated Press, Paste, and Stereogum who raved “The legendary trumpeter Herb Alpert has had one hell of a life in music…He’s still going now. Amazing.” 

For almost three-quarters-of-a-century, Alpert has always had the rare gift of being able to reach the greatest possible group of people through inhabiting an inimitable artistic voice. He has maintained and reshaped his sound through constant practice, recording, and performing (he continues to tour internationally, playing dozens of shows every year). With his eye invariably set on the future, Alpert is already turning over ideas for multiple upcoming albums. The sentiment crystalizes how one of popular music’s truest originals continues to find ways to connect and reconnect with himself and his audience. It is through his love of artistic kernels of inspiration—a couple of bars, a chord, a suggestive brushstroke—that seem to cut across time. 

To support 50, Alpert and Hall will be playing the following shows in December.

 Herb Alpert & Lani Hall Tour Dates:

• 12/10 - Nashville, TN @ Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CMA Theater
• 12/11 - Chattanooga, TN @ Walker Theatre
• 12/13 - Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre
• 12/14 - Metairie, LA @ Jefferson Performing Arts Center
• 12/15 - Houston, TX @ Cullen Auditorium

Alpert’s extraordinary musicianship has earned him 9 GRAMMY® Awards (the latest from his 2014 album Steppin’ Out), 15 Gold albums, 14 Platinum albums and has sold over 72 million records. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass propelled his sound into the pop music limelight, at one point outselling the Beatles two to one. Alpert has a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama in 2013. Alpert also has a second career as an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor with group and solo exhibitions around the United States and Europe. 

As an industry leader, Alpert’s commitment to artists with personal vision guided A&M Records (with partner Jerry Moss) from a Hollywood garage operation into one of the most successful independent record labels in music history, with stars including Janet Jackson, Quincy Jones, Cat Stevens, The Carpenters, Carole King, Sheryl Crow, Peter Frampton, The Police and scores of others. 

Through the Herb Alpert Foundation, Herb and Lani have dedicated their lives to philanthropy, funding programs that help bring creativity to young students and keep creativity alive for all the arts, for artists young and old, including jazz education and programs that teach compassion and well-being. May 2022 marked the 28th anniversary of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts celebrating 140 awardees over the past 28 years. 2021 also brought the opening of the newly remodeled Harlem School of the Arts at the Herb Alpert Center, funded entirely by Herb and Lani Alpert. During the pandemic, the foundation dramatically increased its emergency funding to artists in need through organizations such as Chrysalis, the Jazz Foundation, the Good People’s Fund and Artists Relief.