When this CD is released, trumpet player Herb Alpert and singer Lani Hall have been a happy couple for more than thirty years. Yet they never recorded a record together. Alpert sold more than seventy-two million albums worldwide, first as a band leader of the Tijuana Brass and later as a solo artist. With Jerry Moss he founded A&M Records and signed artists such as The Police, Gino Vanelli and
… Janet Jackson. Hall became known as the lead singer of Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66. With the live registration Anything Goes they finally share the stage for an entire evening with a repertoire that consists for the most part of The Great American Songbook, supplemented by Latin and Brazilian forays, and two compositions by pianist Bill Cantos who accompanied the two spouses. Anything Goes sounds like a more than thirty-year marriage: husband and wife are totally attuned to each other, but the tension is a bit off. (AD)more
