Reviews

Winstone is also a superb lyricist, her songs full of poetic images and metaphors.Click to read Full Review of Melbourne Concert 

I doubt whether there is a singer alive who could not learn something from her.Click to read Full Review of Sydney Concert – 1


Britain’s first lady of jazz Norma Winstone’s debut appearance in Australia…Click to read Full Review of Sydney Concert – 2

 

Review of Norma’s Oxford Concert, April ’11

Absolute Jazz
Down Beat Magazine
Norma Winstone’s instrument: an unfettered
intelligence spinning tales with language…or without

- Thomas Conrad
The Guardian
Her spare, subtle and intelligent approach to
improvisation, jazz standards, impressionistic tone
poetry like a vocal Jan Garbarek and the uncovering
of overlooked songs that deserve to be classics,
put her in the forefront of European singers.

- John Fordham
Jersey Evening Post
It is unlikely that there is a better jazz singer than
Miss Winstone. She has none of the histrionics which
mar so much of the work of her contemporaries,
and one is left with tasteful ideas, expressed in
pure musical form.

- Steve Voce
The Skanner, Portland, Oregon
.. a one-of-a-kind singer blessed with an ear
nonpareil… tones so pure, phrasing so unique
and captivating, as to make each song an aural
adventure.”
Los Angeles Times
.. a superb example of state-of-the-art,
imaginative, virtually beyond-definition singing.”
Don Heckman
The Times, London
Right now, she is at the peak of her form…
there is no jazz singer in the country to touch her.”
Alyn Shipton

I doubt whether there is a singer alive who could not learn something from her.

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