Anything Goes

Personnel: Herb Alpert (vocals, trumpet); Lani Hall (vocals); Bill Cantos (piano, keyboards, background vocals); Hussain Jiffry (electric bass); Michael Shapiro (drums, percussion).Audio Mixer: Bill Schnee.Photographers: Chris Stoehr; Gerry Wersh; Chris Jensen.Arrangers: Hussain Jiffry; Herb Alpert; Lani Hall; Michael Shapiro; Bill Cantos.Herb Alpert has never really embraced his inner jazzman over the course of an entire album before; the closest he came was 1992's MIDNIGHT SUN, ultimately a highly controlled cocoon of a recording. But LIVE: ANYTHING GOES, at long last, is it, and it represents a string of firsts for the protean trumpeter--his first truly straight-ahead jazz project, his first all-new album of any kind in ten years, his first complete album with his wife, singer Lani Hall (who gets co-billing), and his first released by a label which he did not co-own. The concept grew out of a series of live dates that he and Hall played in various cities, from which these tracks wer