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Herb Alpert on his 50th album, signing the Carpenters and playing with the Tijuana Brass in Augusta
Who can forget that sound? It's the mellow trumpet of Herb Alpert — a sound many of us have heard throughout our lives. From mixing mariachi stylings with big band boom on "The Lonely Bull" to singing the lush Burt Bacharach ballad "This …