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Track Listing 1. Simple Gifts 2. River's Edge 3. Carnivale 4. Harvest 5. In The Mountain Air 6. Noche Pacifíca 7. Rainbow Sky 8. Wedding Bells 9. Free To Fly 10. Fallen Snow 11. Countryside 12. Romance Sur La Seine 13. Oceans Apart 14. Beautiful World (We're All Here) - (featuring Adam Crossley) 15. What The World Needs Now Is Love - (featuring Orla Fallon/Jon Secada/Melinda Doolittle/Anne Cochran/Mark Masri)
Album Notes Personnel: Jim Brickman (piano). Recording information: Brickhouse Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Lenz Entertainment, Toronto, Canada; Wildwood Sound, Nashville, TN. 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.
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