Jim Brickman - My Romance: An Evening With Jim Brickman
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Free Music Notes for My Romance: An Evening With Jim Brickman
Free Music Review: Huh?
Hit: 1 Stars
Thank goodness my "an evening with..." CD was a gift. Unfortunately, there's nothing much I can do with it now, save use it for a coaster. As a live recording of a pretend new-agey pianist, this just sucks. The recording limps its way through 14 uninspired tracks, interspersed with Jim's voice and some audience clapping like they've been cued. Olivia Newton-John is capable of maybe two pleasant notes. In the upper registers, she sounds like her thin voice is going to just, break. (I heard her on this other CD, pretending to be a tree, "don't cut me down," she sings. I'm one for saving the forests, but that song was just g*d awful) The original vocalist on Valentine did a much better job, and come to think of it, it's always been the vocalists that Brickman works with that lifts his work.
There are better pop pianists than Brickman. For one, I was shocked that Benoit would work with him. Yes, if you want piano muzak, Benoit's a much better choice. What I still don't get today is how people describe Brickman as new-age. New age. How?
Brickman would say he doesn't want to be pigeonholed. While there are musicians among us who make do music that we can't easily classify -- that's not necessarily a bad thing -- it's another thing altogether when your music is forgettable, shapeless and just plain, ho-hum.