Homecoming: Deluxe Edition

Performer: Jim Brickman
Engineer: Chas Sanford; Brendan Harkin; Benny Shea; Randy Cantor
Producer: Jim Brickman; Dan Shea; Frank J. Myers; Victoria Shaw; Tom Ameen; Steve Sundholm
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel: Brian Hendricks (guitar); Randy Cantor (guitars, mandolin, bass guitar, drums, bells, programming); Tracy Silverman (violin, viola); Paul Nelson (cello); Tom Ameen (strings, percussion); Jeff Smith (oboe, English horn); Corey Britz (bass guitar); Nick Buuda, Adam Gershon (drums); Cris Willis, Michelle Renay, Steve Sundholm (background vocals). Additional personnel: Anne Cochran (vocals); David Klinkenberg (violin); Gerald LeVert, Peter White , Richie McDonald. Presenting a slightly different spin on the tried-and-true holiday album, New Age/pop pianist Jim Brickman opens this predominantly Christmas-oriented outing with "Thanksgiving," a spare, delicate piece that evokes late autumn. The rest of 2007's HOMECOMING returns to the Yuletide theme, though, with Brickman mixing originals (the expressive "Coming Home for Christmas" with vocalist Richie McDonald) and time-honored classics, including a light, airy take on "I Saw Three Ships."

Straddling the line between pop and new age, Jim Brickman's mellow piano compositions evoke romance, hope, and quiet inspiration. Brickman first made his name in the mid-1990s as a Windham Hill artist--one of the few solo instrumentalists to have scored a Billboard hit--and branched out from there with some pop and country collaborations, Christmas recordings, and an album of classic Disney covers. By 2000 he had adopted the musical persona of the suave but menschy romantic that, coupled with his clean-cut good looks, earned him an adoring female audience. Brickman split with Windham Hill in 2005, but continues to own the Adult Contemporary charts.

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