Jazz Articles about Diana Panton

Diana Panton: Soft Winds And Roses

by Pierre Giroux
April 12, 2025

Diana Panton has long been an artist of quiet yet undeniable depth, uniquely transforming melodies into deeply personal narratives. On Soft Winds and Roses, she focuses on modern classics from the 1960s onward, drawing from the songbooks of Elton John, Burt Bacharach, Gordon Lightfoot, Lennon and McCartney, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, among many others. In doing so, she creates an album that is both a journey through timeless compositions and a meditation on love's delicate arc, marked by hesitant ...