So … what am I doing talking about Jacky Cheung? What does a Cantopop superstar have anything to do with me?
Well … On 29 January 2010, Jacky Cheung, one of the biggest names in Chinese pop music, released “Private Corner”, his 57th album and first ever Jazz album. Track 4 on that album is a song called “εδΊει³”, which is a Cantonese version of “Love Scale”, a song I wrote and originally featured in the first Double Take album. And to top that off, I got to play guitar on that track too!!
It all started a year ago when Stephen Lim, Jacky Cheung’s recording engineer, came back home to Kota Kinabalu for his Chinese New Year break. I met up with him to talk about bands we could bring in from Hong Kong for the 2009 KK Jazz Festival. Later he told me that his “boss” will be starting work on his next album and this time it will be a Jazz album. They were still going through the song selection process, so he invited [...]