Oh Snap!! :rofl:

How exciting is this!! :dance:

 

All sounds brilliant but I'm always scared to believe IT could happen! :o

 

Lesley.x

All sounds brilliant but I'm always scared to believe IT could happen! :o

 

Lesley.x

It can Les!..they want him!. :cheer: Give up and come over to the light side!! :lol:

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Matt Phillips

Steve’s Track of the Week: Jessy J

 

jessy j 2My Track of the Week on Fusion Flavours this week is ‘Hot Sauce‘ by the beautiful Jessy J, the title track from her new CD released today 5th September 2011 here in the UK – a whole 24 hours before the US which must be a first!

 

Jessy has become a good friend of Jazz FM and mine over the last few years and she just gets better and better. I first heard her debut CD ‘Tequila Moon’ at Paul Brown’s Funky Joint studio in California back in September 2007. I knew then this lady was special. Her debut and sophomore release ‘True Love’ featured huge Smooth Jazz #1s and put the lady on the map.

 

 

jessy jThe new CD ‘Hot Sauce’ fires up some outstanding tracks. 8 of the 10 tracks are produced by the excellent Paul Brown too. Jessy let me listen to the opening track ‘Remember The Night’ back in May and I knew then we were in for a treat. There is the beautiful cool groove of ‘Rio Grande’ and also the vocal track ‘Rainbow Gold’ featuring Harvey Mason and Joe Sample. The sultry and mellow ‘Till You Make Your Mind Up’ is one of my faves at the moment. The Latin Jessy keeps that flavour flowing with ‘Meant To Be’. Another track which has crept up on me is the Bossa Nova-flavoured vocal ‘We Kissed’.

 

 

jessy j and joe sampleJessy and Joe Sample

There are two cover versions on the album; a sensitive reading of Will Young’s ‘Leave Right Now’ and the Duke Ellington standard ‘In A Sentimental Mood’ featuring Saunders Sermon. The closing track ‘Last Night’ features Harvey Mason, Joe Sample and Ray Parker Jr and Jessy’s vocals star on the track ‘Last Night’. The new album is a ‘grower’ for sure…

 

:o

 

http://www.jazzfm.com/2011/09/steves-track...e-week-jessy-j/

 

Song Title Time Price

1. Remember the Night 4:08 Not Available

2. Rio Grande 4:00 Not Available

3. Hot Sauce 3:17 Not Available

4. Rainbow Gold 4:27 Not Available

5. 'Till You Make Up Your Mind 3:53 Not Available

6. Meant to Be 4:06 Not Available

7. We Kissed 2:50 Not Available

8. Leave Right Now 3:33 Not Available

9. In a Sentimental Mood 4:47 Not Available

10. Last Night

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hot-Sauce-Jessy-J/...8849&sr=1-2

Edited September 5, 201113 yr by phil3579

Thanks Phil i wondered when that album would surface. :D

 

GQ awards tonight..

Sophie Dahl is looking stunning in a red check dress at #gqmoty chatting away to a very smart Will Young!

LuluH_1977Lulu Hanson

@GQDirectory Neeeeed pics of Will Young please!! What's he wearing?? Ahhhhhh! Excited!

GQDirectoryGiorgina Waltier

@LuluH_1977 he is wearing black roll neck with very sharp cut black blazer but my stupid blackberry won't let me zoom in to take a pic sorry

GQDirectoryGiorgina Waltier

@willyoung is dancing away to the soundtrack being played whilst @alexjames walks to the stage to present inspiration award at #gqmoty

Sounds like he's enjoying himself. :heart:

Bloke has a thing for ankle swingers right now :lol: and his hair in black again!

 

Getty pix link

http://www.gettyimages.ca/Search/Search.as...oung+GQ+Awards#

The trousers things is clearly the new thing for blokes. :rofl: if it isn't it will be soon thanks to Will.. :lol:

Bloke has a thing for ankle swingers right now :lol: and his hair in black again!

 

Getty pix link

http://www.gettyimages.ca/Search/Search.as...oung+GQ+Awards#

 

Thanks hun, you really cant log off for 5 mins, cant sleep, :rolleyes: sorry but im really :rofl: at Will, whats he like!

doubt i can post pic but here goes... nope damn dynamic pages again :unsure:

his top is all wrinkly and i just dont get those ankle swingers, makes him look like minnie mouse :wub: :wub:

love him to bits but sometimes he just misses the mark by a mile for me bless him.

Thanks to roma.

 

@davidtench

David Tench

Rehearsal day tomorrow with @will_young31 and the band. Always a happy experience. Aahhh.

15 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone

 

Getting ready for the weekend gigs. :dance:

 

 

Thanks to roma.

 

@davidtench

Getting ready for the weekend gigs. :dance:

 

Thanks Gill and Roma, are we likely to have some of this televised :dance:

Thanks Gill and Roma, are we likely to have some of this televised :dance:

 

I'm sure T4 are showing highlights over the weekend of the Sainsbury gig & radio 2 are broadcasting live from Hyde Park & I think performances will be on the red button. They'll probably upload performances to their website too.

I'm sure T4 are showing highlights over the weekend of the Sainsbury gig & radio 2 are broadcasting live from Hyde Park & I think performances will be on the red button. They'll probably upload performances to their website too.

Thanks Gill, ah T4 wonder if it will be broadcast in one lot or will they pop it in bit by bit during the day, will go see in a bit, im not sure if we can still record on Sky from the red button i think the last time i tried it it didnt work. think it said something to the effect ... you cannot record from this source.. :unsure:

 

 

Thanks to Nic

 

Nice treat for anyone at a loose end this afternoon VH1 are dedicating a whole hour to Will videos at 3pm

 

There's also an interview with Will in Closer magazine.

Edited September 7, 201113 yr by truly talented

Thanks to Nic

There's also an interview with Wil in Closer magazine.

 

oooh Thanks Gill and Nic :dance: Will pop that on :cheer:

and will pick up Closer on Friday :cheer:

Thanks Gill and Nic. :D

Sunday also posted a good few things in the appearances thread for this month, including a repeat showing of his show :dance: nice to see we have some Will to look forward too.

 

Thanks Gill and Nic. :D

Sunday also posted a good few things in the appearances thread for this month, including a repeat showing of his show :dance: nice to see we have some Will to look forward too.

 

I went to look for that hun and couldnt find it :wacko:

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Will Young’s enduring success is more of an exception than a rule for talent show winners of the last decade. His success is probably even greater than that of Leona Lewis or Girls Aloud, if not in sales then certainly in terms of songwriting (he’s co-written all but one of the tracks on new album Echoes). Such is his appeal he was recently given an hour special on ITV, on a prime time Saturday evening slot after X Factor (ignore the fact that the show turned out to be badly produced with some questionable choreography).

 

This elevated status for Young seems to have come at a time when he appears more and more confident with his image and music. Echoes sees him working with Richard X and moving to a more dance music style that some of his traditional housewife audience may find surprising. Gone are the twee pop songs like Leave Right Now, replaced with higher energy tunes like Jealousy, which you can easily see being mixed for clubs.

 

The transition has been a while coming, with this his fourth studio album; “I think the Groove Armada track (History, a corking 80s’ style dance track released last year) getting a good reception from people that listen to my music….did give me the final confidence to make the leap and do this album. If I’d gone from Leave Right Now to Jealousy it would have been a huge musical leap and too much. It just felt like the right time.”

 

Certainly Echoes is a change of gear, not dramatically but nevertheless impressive. However Young’s not spent time worrying about alienating his fans; “I don’t think I am worried. In order to do something properly you have to be fully immersed in it. I think if you’re in the creative process and you worry about how it will be received, you modify it and you end up with a half-mast result.”

 

Young’s Pop Idol victory saw the singer catapulted into stadium environments but his last tour saw him playing more manageable sized venues like London’s Hammersmith Apollo and seeming far more at home; “You do get more comfortable in your skin. Doing festivals like Glastonbury and T in The Park have helped. I really enjoy singing live, that’s where I cam from.”

 

We are chatting almost ten years to the day after his Pop Idol audition and the young man who first captured the nation’s hearts with a pop at Simon Cowell (after his Light My Fire performance) has obviously grown in stature and matured. But how does he see today’s X Factor compared with the relatively tame show he appeared on? “It’s funny watching Pop Idol, it almost feels archaic in its innocence and its naivety and there’s something quite sweet about it. You’re very lucky if you can be part of something when it first takes off.”

 

Young hints at the over produced, manufactured nature of the UK’s biggest TV show, calling Pop Idol “genuine” but sidestepping the accusation it’s all too staged; “I think you can talk up that aspect. We have a choice….if you don’t want to buy into it, you don’t have to.” But would he still take on Simon Cowell in the same way? “Yes, because I am fairly stubborn. What was nice about that moment was that sometimes you have to fight for what you want….and that’s what that was about and very defining for me.”

 

In a way Will Young is a very traditional pop star made in a very different era. His down to earth and seemingly genuine qualities are what keep him close to the hearts of those that voted for him over Gareth Gates a decade ago. Gareth who? Exactly.

 

http://www.music-news.com/showreview.asp?H...;nReviewID=7388

Thanks Sunday.. :D Yes, his success is greater than any others. :heart:

Will mention in this Matt Cardle interview too...Matt needs to watch it i think.

Former X-Factor winner Matt Cardle has said that he is 'desperately' trying to distance himself from the show that made him a star.

 

The singer songwriter was speaking to Sky News as he launched his debut album Letters.

 

"It is one of those things. Will Young's done a spectacular job (at distancing himself) as has Leona Lewis. I think you need to have genuine success with your own material that's all."

http://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/artists/mat...enuine-success/

Thanks for the interview Sunday.

 

Can't say I agree that the Music Special was badly produced but you can't please them all.

 

As for Matt if he wants to be his own man he shouldn't have gone along with a judge from the current show writing his first single from his album.

 

Thanks to Jackie H for this interview with Radio Sussex. Begins about 2hrs 7 mins in.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... 3_09_2011/

 

I must admit TT i agree with him about the TV show i loved it when i was there but i thought the camera work and effects specifically on Jealousy were awful ...i raved about it live but thought it looked clumsy on TV the cameras were to close and made the routine look messy...my first thoughts when i watched it on TV were that it looked a bit cheap.

 

I also thought come on looked amazing at the show but again they filmed it so close up you lost all the spectacle.

Edited September 7, 201113 yr by Sunday

http://www.music-news.com/showreview.asp?H...;nReviewID=7388

 

Thanks Sunday for the interview :cheer:

Im disapointed that the editing of the show and the camera work cheapened the show, a good camera person should grasp it in its entirity and show it at its creative best.

ahem er fifth studio album, or am i being picky :lol:

loved what he said about History, he must read some reviews then, :unsure:

Thanks Gill and Jackie H for the interview will have a listen in a bit :cheer: