Herb Alpert is bringing his 60th anniversary tour to Kodak Center in Rochester on Tuesday, May 12. Showtime is 7:30 PM, and if you have been on the fence: this tour went 39 consecutive sold-out concerts in 2025. Stop deliberating.
About Herb Alpert
The tour is called Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass & Other Delights, and it is built around the album that changed everything. Whipped Cream & Other Delights came out in February 1965, and six decades later Alpert is still on the road with it — this time with a newly formed six-member Tijuana Brass. It is the first time he has toured with the reformed band in over four decades.
The production runs 90 minutes and weaves in audience interaction, archival photos, and video projections alongside the music. The songs are the ones you know: “Spanish Flea,” “The Lonely Bull,” “A Taste of Honey,” “Tijuana Taxi,” “This Guy’s in Love with You,” “Rise” — the full run of it. Alpert is 91 years old and performing like someone who genuinely loves what he is doing.
The resume is not small: nine Grammy Awards, co-founder of A&M Records with Jerry Moss in 1962, and the only artist in recording history to have both a #1 instrumental and a #1 vocal single. He put it plainly in a recent interview: “I never went in with the thought of making an iconic album that people would still be listening to in 2025.” Sixty years of being wrong about that.
About Kodak Center
Kodak Center is Rochester’s room for touring shows of this caliber — a well-run venue in a city that takes its concerts seriously. Plan to arrive a few minutes before 7:30 PM; this show starts on time. If you are making the trip from elsewhere in the Rochester / Finger Lakes region, budget a few extra minutes for parking and the walk in. Full venue details at kodakcenter.com.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets start at $82. Multiple dates on this tour have already sold out — grab yours before this one joins them.