Herb Alpert to deliver ‘knockout’ show

There’s still no stopping the 82-year-old Herb Alpert.

The mastermind behind the 1960s musical outfit the Tijuana Brass, cofounder of A&M Records, nine-time Grammy Award-winner, 2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, National Medal of Arts recipient, Hollywood Walk-of-Famer, philanthropist, painter and sculptor pauses from working on a new painting to chat on the phone about a Nov. 15 concert at Sellersville Theater with his wife, recording artist Lani Hall, and the two new albums he released this year — “Music Volume 1” and “The Christmas Wish,” his first holiday album in almost 50 years.

“I said: ‘Someday I’d like to do one with a choir and an orchestra.’ That’s been on my bucket list, man,” the trumpeter said of “The Christmas Wish,” which includes such recognizable songs as “Santa Baby,” “Winter Wonderland” and “White Christmas.”

In July Alpert released “Music Volume 1,” a collaboration with Jochem van der Saag (who’s also worked with Andrea Bocelli and Destiny’s Child) that reached No. 1 on the Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Album chart in its first week. With a track list of standards such as “Unforgettable,” “Witchcraft,” “C’est Si Bon” and “Just a Gigolo,” interspersed with rock ‘n’ roll era compositions like The Beatles’ “Michelle” and John Lennon’s “Imagine,” Alpert’s interpretation of Jason Mraz’s 2008 smash “I’m Yours” stands out. A video Alpert and Hall made for “I’m Yours” has more than 868,000 views on YouTube. “Lani, my wife, said: ‘Why don’t you try that song in a way that hasn’t been done before?’,” he said.