Sergio Mendes News

Herb Alpert is pleased to have given some friendship to a lonely bull. "I'm doing what I love," says the founder of the Tijuana Brass about life 40 years after achieving recording stardom.

Herb Alpert is, simply put, a music legend. He got his start writing hits like Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World" before founding A & M Records with Jerry Moss in the early '60s. By the time they sold it a quarter-century later, it was one of the most successful record labels in the world.

2, 8 p.m., on the University of Califonia at Los Angeles campus, 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles.

Join us for an evening of modern jazz at the Sun Valley Pavilion Saturday, September 26 featuring Brazilian jazz/funk music legend, Sergio Mendes; pre-eminent jazz guitarist, Gene Bertoncini and the Paul Tillotson Love Trio with special guest Lew Soloff.

The flute's loss was the saxophone's gain. "I started playing piano when I was 4," said Jessy J, interrupting her Hawaiian vacation.

Riviera Maya Jazz Festival Delivers Sweet Tunes & Free Nights at Royal Hideaway Playacar This November SOURCE: All About Jazz Publicity Musician and Resorts Managing Director, Jean Agarrista, Showcases Saxophone Talent at Festival & On-Property Mexico, 2009 The seventh annual Riviera Maya Jazz Festival returns to Mamitas Beach November 25-28, and ...

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On July 26, at 7PM, at Anthology--a jazz club in San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood--an ensemble of seven jazz performers, including jazz guitarist Peter Sprague and vocalist Kevyn Lettau , will perform a tribute concert to Sergio Mendes --a Brazilian musician who plays bossa nova, which he crosses with funk and jazz.

Renowned super producer DJ Spinna is ready to wreck some eardrums with his latest release, Sonic Smash.

While pop music in the mid-1960s was being roiled by the feverish insurgence of the British Invasion and the fiery soul of Stax and Motown, a new strain of exotic rhythms managed to slip in through the back door and quickly exert a powerful hold over the mainstream American ear.

It's summer in the city and world music is everywhere. Percussionist Luis Conte and Cuba L.A. are at LACMA on Saturday at 4 p.m., and they are hot.

Basking in the cool, placid air of last year's Syracuse Jazz Fest, the West Coast/East Coast Dream Band nearly stole the show from the festival's Friday night headliner, Sergio Mendes and the Brazil 2008.

MUSIC: Master trumpet player Herb Alpert, of the delightfully cheesy Sergio Mendes and Tijuana Brass fame, and his wife, singer Lani Hall will perform an intimate night of American and Brazilian jazz featuring Bill Cantos , Michael Shapiro , and Hussain Jiffrey .

After 30 years of blissful marriage, Herb Alpert and Lani Hall are risking it all by hitting the road together in anticipation of their new jazz album, "Anything Goes," out this fall.

Each time Diana Krall releases a new CD I buy it without thinking twice. The albums I already have I play very often, always with delight, never having enough of her music.

For most of the second half of the '60s, Sergio Mendes was the top-selling Brazilian artist in the United States, charting huge hit singles and LPs that regularly made the Top Five.

It's a prime time to be a Vanessa Williams fan. She's on the small screen weekly, as the shrewtastic fashion magazine editor on "Ugly Betty," and she plays a conniving label publicist in "Hannah Montana: The Movie." But on June 2, Williams returns to her first love -- music -- with the release of "The Real Thing." The Concord album is inspired by ...