PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Jim Brickman'S GREATEST HITS features a star studded array of guest artists including Martina McBride, Collin Raye, Michael W. Smith, Dave Koz and many more. Plus this album also features 3 new songs one with Christian artist Mark Schultz, the second featuring Canadian artist Roch Voisine, and the third, a new instrumental track.
Many of Jim Brickman's best-known heart-tuggers are on display in Greatest Hits, a relatively brief disc (43 minutes) that samples nine of the 10 recordings released during the first decade (1994-2003) of Brickman's career. While many Brickman fans claim a stronger allegiance to the pianist/songwriter's non-vocal works, even they have to concede that the Cleveland native has an uncanny touch for crafting catchy, affecting love songs. There are five instrumental tracks (one of them "Partners in Crime", his oversaxed, smooth jazz-targeted duet with Dave Koz), six older vocal selections and two new vocal tracks--the winner being "'Til I See You Again", an engaging, upbeat piece authored by producer David Grow and sung with from-the-mountaintop vigour by Christian vocalist Mark Schultz. Outside of the straining, Mariah Carey-like excesses of "Destiny," the selections are easy to digest, yet they exhibit a level of sophistication that smartly counteracts their modest saccharine and sentimentality content. This is no small feat--a testament to Brickman's intuitive link to deeper, hard-to-articulate human yearnings and his connection to clear-eyed romantics searching for an antidote to a world gone wild with cynicism. --Terry Wood