Janey Clewer and her husband Bruce Gaitsch are now finishing up Janey's new solo CD mixes with the engineer Josh Abbey, producer and engineer for Russell Watson, in NYC. Janey's new solo CD "Fallen For Brazil", is a collection of self-penned compositions and one cover of “This Masquerade”. Her songs are new additions to the already colorful existing palate of exotic, Brazilian music. With the embellishment of Portuguese background vocals by Michael Sembello and the acoustic guitar work of Bruce Gaitsch, she weaves a sexy collection of bossa novas. Flutes by Dave Boruff, vibes by Alex Poston and the bass of John Patitucci add a whole new level of sophistication. The timeless string arrangements of Boh Cooper and Janey brush each song with beautiful strokes of color. The string players are Nashville’s finest led by David Davidson, concertmaster of Orchestra Nashville.
In addition to the above-mentioned solo effort, Janey will perform in NYC again with George Benson for a concert "A Tribute to Nat King Cole" November 10th at Lincoln Center. In February of 2008 (February 15th, 2008), Janey sang background vocals for George Benson in L.A. for a special Nat King Cole tribute concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Janey again joined George in June of 2008 for more concerts at Chastain Park in Atlanta and Wolf Trap in Virginia where she was also featured singing the duet “Unforgettable” with George.
I am pleased to report that David Roberts Japan Tour 2008 has finished with great success! This success will ensure that David will keep on rocking. I believe that David is now confident for future as a solo artist. How do you feel now, David?
Before starting up his live performance on Saturday, October 4th 2008, David had in-store promotional live at Tower Records Shibuya. Normally, such in-store live performance would be done as unplugged set but David was a little different. He performed with all tour band members; Fred Mollin, Brad Cole and others. He performed 5 songs in total; "Better Late Than Never", the title track of his brand-new 2nd solo, "Best Thing I Never Had" from the 2nd solo, "Until Your Heart's Content" from his just-released unreleased material collection CD "The Missing Years", "Boys Of Autumn" and "Midnight Rendezvous" from his 1982 masterpiece "All Dressed Up". After the show, it was not surprising thing that not only his long-time fans but also the young women who experienced this performance by chance, bought his CDs because of David's excellent music pieces. On 4th October, the tour started... Almost 300-350 people gathered to listen to David Roberts live performance. The show was opened by one of the most popular tune "All In The Name Of Love" and they performed 14 songs in total for the show. The band moved to Osaka and Nagoya to perform. And the band returned to Tokyo on October 8th.
October 8th show was so excited not only because the band reached full maturity and but also David won the hearts and minds of the audience. After the 1st encore, David and the band were dragged out on stage, and performed "All In The Name Of Love" again. Here is the set list of October 8th.
1. All In The Name Of Love (from the album "All Dressed Up")
2. Better Late Than Never" (from the album "Better Late Than Never")
3. Someone Else's Song (from the album "Better Late Than Never")
4. Boys Of Autumn (from the album "All Dressed Up")
5. Run Back (from the album "The Missing Years" 6. Midnight Rendezvous (from the album "All Dressed Up")
7. Misunderstood (from the album "The Missing Years")
8. Before I Go (from the album "Better Late Than Never">
9. What I've Been Missing (from the album "Better Late Than Never">
10. Stay With Me Tonight (from the album "Better Late Than Never">
11. Someone Like You (from the album "All Dressed Up")
[1st Encore]
12. Best Thing I Never Had (from the album "Better Late Than Never">
13. Until Your Heart's Content (from the album "The Missing Years")
[2nd Encore]
14. All In The Name Of Love (from the album "All Dressed Up")
All the audience seemed to be satisfied and really hope that David Roberts will keep on rocking and come to Japan in 2009. Lastly, I would herewith the short message video from David Roberts.
Joseph Williams' brand-new solo album called " THIS FALL" will be released in
Japan November 19 on WHD entertainment on HQCD format.
The album features guest appearances and songs co-written with Bobby Kimball
, Steve Lukather, David Paich( co-compose, piano, organ, lead
vocal), Steve Porcaro. Also.... Richie Zito, Jay Gruska, Mark T. Williams and Rick Marotta. All of the songs are composed or co-composed by Joseph and the album is self-produced. As far as we have heard, one of the great CCM singer/songwriter Chris Eaton also dedicated his songwriting talent for this album. Joey Carbone, the executive producer stated "Simply said, this album is BRILLIANT and will be a great fan pleaser. Joseph thinks that this is his best solo album to date."
And on the same date WHD also re-release 2 old Joseph's solo album. One is Joseph's self-titled first solo masterpiece "Joseph Williams" and the other is Joseph's early era's unreleased materials collection album "Early Years".
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