Beautiful World

Performer: Jim Brickman
Artist: Adam Crossley; Orla Fallon; Jon Secada; Melinda Doolittle; Anne Cochran; Mark Masri
Producer: Jim Brickman
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Personnel: Jim Brickman (piano). Photographer: Rob Waymen. For his 2009 effort, pianist (and new age juggernaut) Jim Brickman decided to celebrate the music he's heard on his travels around the world. The fittingly titled BEAUTIFUL WORLD plays like an elegy as Brickman brings his usual soft elegance to simple three-minute compositions which take in everything from tropicalia ("Carnivale") to bossa nova ("Noche Pacifica") to chanson ("Romance Sur La Seine"). He wraps things up with a cover of Burt Bachrach's classic piano-bar number "What the World Needs Now Is Love" featuring a host of vocalists including Jon Secada and Melinda Doolittle, an apt summing up of the spirit of the record. After a string of vocal collaborations, Jim Brickman returned to solo instrumentals (the style that earned him a place in the upper echelon of new age/classical crossover artists) for 2009's Beautiful World. Inspired by the universal concepts of music and friendship, Beautiful World subsists primarily on Brickman's soft, melodic piano cues, but guest appearances from Jon Secada, Orla Fallon, Melinda Doolittle, and Mark Masri help to expand Brickman's simplistic yet effective pieces into expansive, atmospheric tone poems that will please newcomers and longtime fans alike. [The CD was also released with five bonus tracks.] ~ James Christopher Monger

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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