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Jim Brickman James Merrill Brickman (born November 20, 1961) is an American pop songwriter, pianist and radio host. Brickman has earned two Grammy nominations for his albums ''Peace'' (2003) for Best Instrumental, and ''Faith'' (2009) for Best New Age Album ...

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Westlake Studios Westlake Recording Studios is a music recording studio in West Hollywood, California. History Westlake Recording Studios was founded in the early 1970s by the American audio engineer Tom Hidley under the name Westlake Audio. Hidley was experienc ...

(Los Angeles, California); Eccolux Studios and RMI Studios (New York City, New York); OmniSound Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) , genre =

Holiday A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Generally, holidays are intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tra ...

New-age New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars conside ...

Jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

Pop music Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describe ...

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Windham Hill Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music. It was founded by guitarist William Ackerman and Anne Robinson (née McGilvray) in 1976 and was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The label was ...

Bertelsmann Music Group Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) was a division of a German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008. Although it was established in 1987, the music com ...

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Billy Mann William H. Mann (born William Isaiah Erlichman; December 20, 1968) is a Grammy-nominated American songwriter, record producer and founder of independent music publishing company Green & Bloom/Topline, as well as chairman of management firm Man ...

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Greatest Hits A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band. While greatest hits albums are typically supported by the artist, they can also be crea ...

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released on September 23, 2003. It is a

Christmas Christmas is an annual festival commemorating Nativity of Jesus, the birth of Jesus, Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people Observance of Christmas by country, around t ...

album and received a

Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pres ...

Nomination for

Best Pop Instrumental Album The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (previously: Best Pop Instrumental Album) is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording arti ...

Track listing

# "

We Three Kings "We Three Kings", original title "Three Kings of Orient", also known as "We Three Kings of Orient Are" or "The Quest of the Magi", is a Christmas carol that was written by John Henry Hopkins Jr. in 1857. At the time of composing the carol, Hopki ...

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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is an English Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection ''Hymns and Sacred Poems''. The carol, based on , tells of an angelic chorus singing praises to God. As it is known in the modern era, it f ...

" – 2:42 # "

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", also known as simply "Let It Snow", is a song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in July 1945 in Hollywood, California, during a heat wave as Cahn and Styne imagined cooler conditions ...

" – 2:45; featuring

The Blind Boys of Alabama The Blind Boys of Alabama, also billed as The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, and Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama, is an American gospel group. The group was founded in 1939 in Talladega, Alabama, and has featured a changing roster ...

# " Early Snowfall" (Jim Brickman) – 3:04 # "

Do You Hear What I Hear? "Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a song written in October 1962, with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne. The pair, married at the time, wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Regney had been invited by a record p ...

" – 4:05; featuring

Anne Cochran Anne Cochran is a singer-songwriter from Cleveland, Ohio. She is best known as the lead touring vocalist for pianist and songwriter Jim Brickman, with whom she shared the top 5 Adult Contemporary radio format hit single "After All These Years" ...

and Tracy Silverman # "

Away in a Manger "Away in a Manger" is a Christmas carol first published in the late nineteenth century and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain, it is one of the most popular carols; a 1996 Gallup Poll ranked it joint second. Although i ...

" – 3:45 # " Rejoice (O Come, O Come Emmanuel)" – 3:59 # "

O Holy Night "O Holy Night" (original title: ) is a well-known sacred song for Christmas performance. Originally based on a French-language poem by poet Placide Cappeau, written in 1843, with the first line (Midnight, Christian, is the solemn hour) that co ...

" – 3:29 # "

Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and most commonly sung American songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title "The One Horse Open Sleigh" in September 1857. It has been claimed th ...

" – 4:21 # "

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" is an English traditional Christmas carol. It is in the Roxburghe Collection (iii. 452), and is listed as no. 394 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It is also known as "Tidings of Comfort and Joy", and by other varian ...

" – 4:05 # " Sending You a Little Christmas" (Brickman,

, Victoria Shaw) – 2:28; featuring

Kristy Starling Kristy Starling is a contemporary Christian music singer, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After marrying husband Adam Starling in the late 2002, she came second in a national singing competition, ''Today's Superstar'', NBC News' morning show. ...

# "Blessings" (Brickman) – 2:28 # "Peace (Where the Heart Is)" (Brickman, Keith Follesé) – 4:04; featuring

Collin Raye Floyd Elliot Wray (born August 22, 1960) is an American country music singer, known professionally as Collin Raye, and previously as Bubba Wray. Under the latter name, he recorded as a member of the band The Wrays between 1983 and 1987. He made ...

Personnel

Musicians

* Jim Brickman – grand piano, arrangements (1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10), backing vocals (5) * Howard Pfeifer – additional keyboards (3), arrangements (3) *

– keyboard programming (11), arrangements (11), backing vocals (11) *

Chris Rojas Christopher Rojas (born 1982) is a multi-platinum composer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is also the co-founder of DigiTour Media. Biography Rojas grew up in Flushing, Queens and attended Hunter College High School from 1994–20 ...

– keyboard programming (11), arrangements (11) * Bruce Watson – guitars (13) * Jorgen Carlsson – additional guitars (13), bass (13) * Dominic Genova – bass (3) * Nick Vincent – drums (3) * Matt Laug – drums (13), percussion (13) * David Grow – additional percussion (3), arrangements (3, 7, 13), keyboards (5, 7, 13), backing vocals (5, 13), additional keyboards (12) * George Purviance – Ethnic percussion (13) * Joseph Stone –

recorder Recorder or The Recorder may refer to: Newspapers * ''Indianapolis Recorder'', a weekly newspaper * ''The Recorder'' (Massachusetts newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Greenfield, Massachusetts, US * ''The Recorder'' (Port Pirie), a news ...

(1),

English horn The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially an alto ...

(9) * Steven Holtman – muted trombone (3) *

Eric Rigler Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He performs as a solo artist and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the m ...

–

penny whistle The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class as the recorder, Native American flute, and other woodwind instruments that meet such criteria. ...

(5) * Tracy Silverman – 6-string viola (5, 7, 12), arrangements (7), violin (13) * Ellie Choate –

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

(6) * Peggy Baldwin – cello (13) * Eddie King – orchestrations (1, 2, 9, 10), arrangements (6) * Cliff Bemis – vocal conductor (5, 7) *

– vocals (3) *

– lead vocals (5), backing vocals (5) *

Ken Stacey Ken Stacey (born in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, California) is an American lead singer, guitarist, songwriter, session musician, session vocalist and backing vocalist. Stacey has worked with Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Johnny Hallyday ...

– backing vocals (5, 13) * Windy Wagner – backing vocals (5, 13) *

– lead vocals (11) *

– lead vocals (13) * Monty Allen – backing vocals (13) * David Isaacs – backing vocals (13) The Malibu Lake Holiday Singers (5 & 7) * Cliff Bemis, David Grow, Phoebe Jevtovich, Ken Stacey and Windy Wagner

Production

* Jim Brickman – producer (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10), piano recording (7), recording (8) * Eddie King – producer (1, 2, 6, 9, 10), engineer (2, 4, 6, 9, 10) * David Grow – producer (3, 5, 7, 12, 13), recording (3, 5, 7, 12, 13), mixing (3, 5, 7, 12, 13), additional recording (7) * Billy Mann – producer (11) * Chris Rojas – engineer (11) * Rod Michaels – assistant engineer (3, 13), music editing (3, 13) * Ashburn Miller – assistant engineer (3, 5, 7, 12) * Dave Collins – mastering at Dave Collins Mastering (Hollywood, California) * Michael Caprio – art direction, design * Kevin Merrill – cover photography, studio photography * Anne Cochran – winter scene photography * Wendy Leonard – winter scene photography assistant 2003 Christmas albums Christmas albums by American artists Jim Brickman albums New-age Christmas albums