![]() Reaching outside of his established core audience, Brickman found alternative ways to reach a large audience. He’s also the author of two best-selling books, 2001’s Simple Things and 2005’s Love Notes, co-written with Cindy Pearlman. ![]() Along the way he’s been rewarded for his melodically sublime style with two Grammy Award nominations, a couple of SESAC “Songwriter of the Year” Awards, a Canadian Country Music Award and a Dove Award presented by the Gospel Music Association. Throughout his long career, Brickman has also shared his artistry with luminaries such as Kenny Loggins, Carly Simon, Herb Alpert, Michael Bolton, Donny Osmond, Richie McDonald of country vocal group Lonestar, smooth jazz saxophonist Dave Koz, Olivia Newton-John, and Canadian country singer Michelle Wright. Most recently in 2013, Brickman's The Magic of Christmas featuring the 2003 remake of "Sending You A Little Christmas" with Johnny Mathis landed at #1 on Billboard New Age and took the #58 spot on Billboard Top 200. Other Brickman staples include “Simple Things” with Rebecca Lynn Howard, “Peace” and “The Gift,” both with Collin Raye and Susan Ashton, “Never Alone” with Lady Antebellum, and “Love of My Life” with Michael W. His collaboration with soaring country songstress Martina McBride, the beautiful paean to love titled “Valentine,” scored at mainstream country radio in 1998, peaking at No. He’s amassed 27 Top 40 singles on the adult contemporary charts, including 14 Top 10 smashes. Overall, he’s sold more than 7 million albums. Four of his albums have been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America – 1995’s By Heart, 1997’s Picture This and The Gift, and 1999’s Destiny – for sales of more than 500,000 copies. That's all this Shaker Heights, Ohio native needed to set his career in motion, and more than two decades later, Jim Brickman would become the most commercially successful instrumental pop pianist of the last three decades. As a child, Brickman had studied music at the prestigious conservatory and was honored in 2011 when the Cleveland Institute of Music established a scholarship in his name. He was 8, taking private lessons from a piano teacher down the street from his parents’ Cleveland suburb home, but little Jimmy Brickman wouldn’t conform to the rudimentary regulations of piano playing, even after his piano teacher told his mother he "didn't have the knack for this." By the age of 12, Brickman found his mentor in the creative tutelage of a Cleveland Institute of Music graduate. Like Kubrick's 2001 Black Monolith, Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators XL is an immersive, intense and enigmatic work.Jim Brickman wouldn’t play by the rules. The beats are neither ornaments nor colours, but the primary material for which the piece was conceptualised. Little could I have imagined that the passing comment (‘have you ever considered doing a long duration version of your fantastic Music for Piano?’) that I made to Alvin Lucier, America’s legendary experimental composer, resulted in an incredible, new work arriving in my mailbox months later? Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators XL is a 64-minute sonic exploration that transports the listener through the timbral possibilities of sonic interference (known by acousticians as 'beating') generated by the interaction between the two pure wave oscillators and the striking of each key on the piano. This new XL version expands the extraordinary listening experience in a work described by Nicolas Horvath as ‘immersive, intense and enigmatic’. Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators explores the acoustic ‘beating’ effects and tuning phenomena of sine waves against piano tones. * In pocess of stocking * Alvin Lucier is one of America’s foremost experimentalists, challenging the fundamental principles of music and focusing on acoustic phenomena and how listeners perceive them.
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