Jazz Articles about George Winstone

About George Winstone

Album Review

Surprisingly, George Winstone's album Odysseus has no connection with Greek Mythology, the Trojan War or Homer's epic poem. For Winstone, the title just seemed to fit. Indeed, it does seem apt; the soundscapes and moods that Winstone, together with guitarist Ben Monder, create would be suitable for the arc of many a journey narrative. London-born saxophonist Winstone released his first EP in 2018. The following year, to move his career forward, he relocated to New York City. Monder ...

Album Review

George Winstone: Outer Spaces

Read "Outer Spaces" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
July 8, 2018

Alto saxophonist and composer George Winstone's debut recording stands out from the crowd. Technically it's an EP but at 33 minutes it's not very different in duration from some LPs; it's actually the same length as Coltrane's A Love Supreme and four minutes longer than (Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity . Winstone, who was born in 1994, studied for a BMus (Hons) in jazz saxophone at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance under the direction of altoist ...