The Recording Academy® To Honor Music World Legends And A&M Records Co-Founders Herb Alpert And Jerry Moss At The 2007 Grammy® Salute To Industry Icons™ On Feb. 11 Immediately Following The AwardsAlpert's Legendary, Chart-Topping, Grammy-Winning 1979 Album Rise To Be Reissued May 29 In Expanded & Remastered Form As Part Of Shout! Factory's Acclaimed Herb Alpert Signature SeriesAdditional Alpert reissues hit iTunes Feb. 6; box set due later this year!Los Angeles, CA, January 2007: When Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss started what would become A&M Records in a Los Angeles garage in 1962, they couldn't have predicted it would evolve into the world's largest independently-owned record company, set new standards for artist development and change the face of contemporary music itself. On February 11, The Recording Academy® will recognize the vast artistic and entrepreneurial talents, passion and expansive vision that made those rare accomplishments possible when the duo is honored at the annual GRAMMY® Salute To Industry Icons™ event. Featuring a presentation of the President's Merit Award - by President Neil Portnow - to Alpert and Moss in honor of their contributions to popular music, the reception will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center immediately following the 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Alpert and Moss led A&M Records for over three decades, serving as executives signing new acts, songwriters, producers and, in Alpert's case, as an artist. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass' The Lonely Bull was A&M's debut release - both the album and single went Top 10 and one of pop music's most legendary acts - and labels - was born. Under Herb and Jerry's guidance, A&M Records went on to launch and develop the careers of other artists including Bryan Adams, Burt Bacharach, the Carpenters, Sheryl Crow, Peter Frampton, Amy Grant, Janet Jackson, Joe Jackson, Quincy Jones, Carole King, Sergio Mendes, the Police, Iggy Pop, Billy Preston, Soundgarden, Cat Stevens, Sting, Styx, Supertramp, Suzanne Vega and Barry White. In 1997, The Recording Academy paid tribute to Alpert and Moss' legacy with the GRAMMY Trustees Award, one of NARAS' highest honors for significant contributions to the field of recording outside of performing. In 2006, the duo also became recipients of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in the non-performing category. In addition to the GRAMMY® Salute To Industry Icons and Trustees Award honors, Herb Alpert has earned six GRAMMYs as a recording artist/performer, beginning with a trio of awards for the 1965 Brass hit "A Taste Of Honey," including Record of the Year. Most recently, as a post-TJB solo artist, he received a Best Pop Instrumental Performance GRAMMY for his 1979 #1 Pop/#4 Black/#1 AC single "Rise," a down-tempo dance smash marking Alpert's return - almost two decades into his career - to the top of the charts and the forefront of the pop culture landscape. The also chart-topping album Rise, a disco-inflected masterpiece that's an Alpert career highlight, has just been fully restored, expanded and remastered for a forthcoming release on May 29 as the latest addition to Shout! Factory's Herb Alpert Signature Series. Rise's reissue will feature previously unreleased bonus tracks, deluxe packaging, new liner notes and personal reflections and remastering supervision from Alpert himself. First launched in 2005, the Herb Alpert Signature Series already includes Whipped Cream & Other Delights, The Lonely Bull, South Of The Border, Going Places, the rarities collection Lost Treasures and other landmark albums. The Series' most recent title is 2006's Whipped Cream & Other Delights Re-Whipped, an exuberant reinvention of the Brass' 4X GRAMMY® winning 1965 masterpiece Whipped Cream & Other Delights. The first project ever to remix an album in its entirety, Rewhipped adds 21st century flavor to twelve classic tracks via the innovative musical reimaginings of a roster of star producer-mixers - including John King, Ozomatli, Mocean Worker, Anothony Marinelli and Camara Kambon - and brand new solo trumpet lines from Alpert throughout. Additionally, to coincide with GRAMMY week 2007, three more titles from the Herb Alpert Signature Series will make their iTunes debut on February 6: Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, Vol. 2, Warm and The Brass Are Comin'. Shout! Factory is also compiling an unprecedented Herb Alpert retrospective box set for release later this year. For more information, log on to www.herbalpert.com ### |