Windham Hill Memories

This week I will be doing my review on the Jim Brickman album, By Heart: Piano Solos, released in 1995 by Windham Hill Records. Now if you never heard of Jim Brickman or his music, here's a link to the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Brickman And for further, more reliable research, here's the link to his website: http://www.jimbrickman.com/ I do promise to explain more about Jim's life, career and album discography in the future. But for now, here is the album By Heart . The songs "Angel Eyes" and "If You Believe", from this album gained radio airplay. The following year, the CD's title tune, "By Heart," became his first top 20 adult contemporary (AC) hit. (Wikipedia, para 2, Musical Career). This album became one of his best releases as it earned 4 stars and a half out of 5 stars. My personal favorite tracks from the album are "If You Believe", which was featured on Windham Hill Sampler 96 and "L...

I found two more CDs at Goodwill on Saturday and I figured that it was for the best that I showed you them. This week I will post the Jim Brickman CD, By Heart: Piano Solos , which was supposed to go up but couldn't because I ran out of time. I promise to post it this week.

Normally I wouldn't do a review on an artist or album in random order, but since this is only temporarily, I thought it would not only keep you guys entertained but it can also help me get back into the swing of things in terms of blog post making. Anyway, the reason I only come on here monthly now is because I haven't been on here lately due to college work and illnesses in the stomach. During the days when I'm not on, however, I have purchased my own copies of Windham Hill CDs at my nearest Goodwill store. So far, I bought three. I've seen more but I couldn't afford all of them so I selected the ones that were in the best condition so far. The following Windham Hill CDs I purchased are: Jim Brickman - By Heart: Piano Solos, Nightnoise: A Windham Hill Retrospective, and Modern Mandolin Quartet - Intermezzo .  Here is a picture of the Windham Hill CD finds that I managed to purchase at Goodwill so far: I am really excited to share with you these a...