Brickman Tickles the Ivories Tonight -- Solo Since 1994, Pianist Plans Intimate Celebration

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Though the season is a celebration of friends and family, all the best Christmas music has a tinge of winter melancholy about it, an implicit acknowledgement that things eventually come to an end and friends and family members should be embraced while we can.

This is true of Jim Brickman's new compact disc. The best- selling New Age pianist, who's in Memphis today for an afternoon appearance at Amro Music and an evening performance at the Orpheum, has tended toward the treacle since he left his job at Jim Henson Productions and struck out on a solo career in 1994. And Homecoming, his 16th record and the first on his own label since breaking with Windham Hill last year, is no exception.

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Brickman Tickles the Ivories Tonight -- Solo Since 1994, Pianist Plans Intimate Celebration

"It has a tone that is extremely intimate and extremely celebratory of the times people get together, the emotions of the intimacy of Christmastime," says Brickman of the third holiday- themed release of his c...

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