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Performer: Jim Brickman
Distributor: WEA (distr)

Notes: Personnel: Jim Brickman (piano). Additional personnel: Jaci Valesquez, Lady Antebellum, Jake Simpson, Tom Douglas (vocals). With a different track list than his 2002 album of the same name, 2008's VALENTINE finds contemporary instrumentalist Jim Brickman in his most lush, smooth, and pop-oriented mode. Brickman's piano playing resembles the atmospheric melodicism of George Winston (at times it veers into the radio-ready sound of mainstream pop balladry), and his performances make VALENTINE gleam. Most of the VALENTINE consists of Brickman's unadorned solo piano pieces, but there are a few vocal tracks, such as "To Hear You Say You Love Me" and "Love of My Life," sprinkled throughout. The vocals cuts are love ballads, and provide a nice balance to the pretty, soothing instrumentals.

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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