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Norma Winstone

Norma Winstone

Norma Winstone has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 33 episodes and was first played on 2 November 2015.

Norma Ann Winstone (born 23 September 1941, in Bow, East London) is a British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her wordless improvisations.

Winstone began singing in bands around Dagenham in the early 1960s, before joining Michael Garrick's band in 1968. Her first recording came the following year, with Joe Harriott. She recorded one album under her own name in 1972. [1]

Winstone has worked with most of her peers in British jazz including Garrick, Mike Westbrook and her former husband, the pianist John Taylor. With Taylor and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler she has performed and recorded three albums for ECM as a member of the trio Azimuth between 1977 and 1980. In addition she made an album with the American pianist Jimmy Rowles (Well Kept Secret, 1993).

Norma Winstone was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 2007 for her services to Music.

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Norma Winstone

Norma Winstone has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 33 episodes and was first played on 2 November 2015.

Norma Ann Winstone (born 23 September 1941, in Bow, East London) is a British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her wordless improvisations.

Winstone began singing in bands around Dagenham in the early 1960s, before joining Michael Garrick's band in 1968. Her first recording came the following year, with Joe Harriott. She recorded one album under her own name in 1972. [1]

Winstone has worked with most of her peers in British jazz including Garrick, Mike Westbrook and her former husband, the pianist John Taylor. With Taylor and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler she has performed and recorded three albums for ECM as a member of the trio Azimuth between 1977 and 1980. In addition she made an album with the American pianist Jimmy Rowles (Well Kept Secret, 1993).

Norma Winstone was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 2007 for her services to Music.

Original source: Last.fm

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Azimuth
John Taylor, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Azimuth
ECM Records1977
The Tunnel
John Taylor, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Azimuth
ECM Records1977
Original Peter
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band, Norma Winstone
DERAM1970
Song Of Love
Norma Winstone
Argo1972
Siren's Song
Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, John Taylor, The Maritime Jazz Orchestra
Justin Time1997
Magic Garden
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band, Norma Winstone
DERAM1970
Distance
Norma Winstone, Glauco Venier, Klaus Gesing
ECM Records2008
Tea For Two
Norma Winstone
ECM Records1987
Prologue
Norma Winstone
ECM Records1987
Mother Lou
Jazztrack, Norma Winstone
Musicians Record Co., EMI Electrola1979