Herb Alpert West Coast band We Five. Among the notable artists he worked with personally are Chris Montez, The Carpenters, Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66, Bill Medley, Lani Hall (Alpert's second and current wife), Liza Minnelli and Janet Jackson (featured vocalist on his 1987 hit single "Diamonds"). These working relationships allowed Alpert to place singles in the Top 10 in three different decades (1960s, 1970s, and 1980s). Alpert and A&M Records partner Jerry Moss agreed in 1987 to sell A&M to PolyGram Records for a reported $500 million. Both would continue to manage the label until 1993, when they left because of
Volume 2 (Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass album) by Herb Alpert at the beginning of "The Great Manolete (La Virgen de la Macarena)". It was made available digitally for download in February 2007 at the same time as the reissues of the 1969 albums "Warm" and "The Brass Are Comin'." No CD reissue of "Volume 2" was available for years, as Alpert reportedly felt that the album was of inferior technical quality. On September 9, 2016, Volume 2, along with 23 of Herb's other albums, was reissued on CD on the Herb Alpert Presents label. As with "The Lonely Bull", the album features some songs with a very