LATE SINGER AMY WINEHOUSE HAD PLANNED JAZZ ALBUM WITH "SUPERGROUP"

Plans were afoot to record and release an album with a "jazz supergroup" by the late singer Amy Winehouse reveals her producer Salaam Remi. The 27-year-old singer who dead due to accidental alcohol poisoning this year, is said to have been planning on putting together a jazz album with a "supergroup."

According to Remi, the ‘Back to Black’ singer was hoping on teaming up with ‘The Roots’ drummer Questlove and saxophone player Soweto Kinch to make the record. Speaking to the Associated Press, Remi also informed that Winehouse had herself written all the songs. She had wanted the songs to appear on her third album for which she had even chosen the titles.

However, according to the producer at the time of the singer's death, the release of her third album would still have taken some time to come out in public as she was taking her own time with the third album. Remi goes on to inform that basically each one of her songs were kind of autobiographical. Therefore, she first had to live through something, and then only come out of it. After which she could reminisce about the same and be able to write about it, he analyzed.

Due to her untimely death, Winehouse was able to record only two songs for her third album. These two songs will be appearing on Amy’s posthumous album 'Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures.' The album is to be released on December 5, 2011. There are twelve tracks which also consist of two other covers and several previously unreleased tracks featured in the album itself. The sale of the album is also for a charitable cause.

From each copy of 'Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures' sold; £1 will be donated to the Amy Winehouse Foundation. It is the charity established in the late singer's name by her father to provide help, support or care for youngsters.