While in Los Angeles last week we stopped by Vibrato Grill Jazz, a beautiful restaurant and jazz club in Bel Air owned by renown musician Herb Alpert. Our friend Tony Campanale is the manager there and during our visit he introduced us to Pat Senatore, a charming man, who along with being the music director of the club, was the bass player for Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass.
The band performing the night we were there was the Rick Vittallo Quartet and at one point Slim Jim Phantom from the Stray Cats sat in on the drums.
On our way out I noticed a series of jazz musician sculptures over the bar. I asked Tony about them and he said that they came from the lobby of A&M Records. Herb Alpert is the “A” in A&M Records which he co-founded in 1962 with Jerry Moss.
Herb Alpert and his wife Lani Hall are currently on a US tour.
photos by Scott Beale
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Faith No More covered the Herb Alpert song “This Guy’s in Love with You” and like most of their covers, it was pretty much spot-on.
I always wondered what Herb though about that …
I believe “This Guy’s in Love with You” is actually a Burt Bacharach song.