Herb Alpert and Lani Hall

We just saw these two (and the three other members of the band) here in Portland and they took the roof off the place. While he did a short medley of the old fizzy-pop stuff that made him famous, it could have been eliminated and not missed by most. This was some seriously good music: versions of standards and Brazilian music arranged to a “T”. The guy is 75 years old and can still blow the horn well enough to tour. His wife, Lani Hall, still has the pipes of a 30-year old and they have a good on-stage chemistry.

They’re headed to Vancouver, Canada so if you live up that way, make sure you catch the show. They did three encores here.