Jazz Articles about Norma Winstone

About Norma Winstone

Interview

Stefano Amerio: 20 anni di Artesuono

by Neri Pollastri
November 5, 2018

Sono passati ormai diversi anni da quando abbiamo intervistato Stefano Amerio, tecnico del suono e patron di Artesuono, lo studio di registrazione più noto e affermato d'Italia e anche d'Europa, almeno per l'ambito jazzistico. Ma Artesuono è anche un'etichetta discografica con un catalogo ampio e interessante, ancorché popolato di prodotti prevalentemente di area friulana. Un etichetta che quest'anno celebra il suo ventennale. Abbiamo colto l'occasione per recarci da Amerio e fare con lui una chiacchierata sullo stato dell'arte tanto dell'etichetta, ...

Album Review

Norma Winstone: Descansado - Songs For Films

Read "Descansado - Songs For Films" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland
April 19, 2018

Norma Winstone has had her current trio since 2001, long enough to have released five albums (four for ECM). Descansado, a celebration of cinema through the language of music, is that fourth CD, and it's a winner from start to finish. The album's title derives from a Armando Trovajoli composition, used in Italian director Vittorio De Sica's 1963 film Ieri, Oggi, Domani (Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow). The group's rendition of this touching number is typically sublime. With bass clarinetist/soprano ...

Album Review

Mike Westbrook Concert Band: Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks

Read "Marching Song Volumes 1 & 2 Plus Bonus Tracks" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
May 31, 2017

It's hardly surprising that Mike Westbrook reigned supreme in the latter quarter of the 1960s and early 70s. His big band was voted top of that category in the late-lamented Melody Maker British jazz polls for 1970 (and the two years either side of that). In the same year, his third album, Marching Song, recorded a year earlier came third in the category “LP Of The Year" (the number one album that year was John McLaughlin's seminal Extrapolation so there ...

Live Review

London Jazz Festival 2016

by Duncan Heining
November 25, 2016

The London Jazz Festival, now in its 24th year, straddles the capital--its noble aim, as ever, is the provision of musical succour for the diverse tastes that make up the larger British jazz audience. You want mainstream, you'll find it. Looking for fusion, then look no further. Free jazz, bebop, blues? Step this way. Postjazz? Postjazz? I'm sure I saw it here somewhere. The first Sunday caught James Blood Ulmer at the East End's Rich Mix. Backed by ...

Album Review

Kevin Brady: Ensam

by Ian Patterson
August 26, 2016

The trans-Atlantic trio of drummer/composer Kevin Brady, Bill Carrothers and Dave Redmond first came together in 2006, since when it has toured more frequently than it's recorded. Ensam (LRP Music, 2016), the group's third outing, following Common Ground (The Livingroom Project, 2007) and Zeitgeist (Fresh Sounds, New Talent, 2009), is an intimate three-way dialogue, with veteran English singer Norma Winstone adding lustre to several tracks. Brady--who penned all the original tunes--leaves an abundance of room for his colleagues to explore ...

Album Review

Norma Winstone: Dance without Answer

Read "Dance without Answer" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
September 16, 2014

Terzo album di Norma Winstone con Glauco Venier e Klaus Gesing, versione contemporanea dei lied da camera, dei quali riprende pregi e difetti. Qui, ancor più che nei precedenti Distance e Stories Yet to Tell, la cantante britannica riprende brani della popular musicdel Novecento--tra gli altri troviamo brani di Madonna, Nick Drake, Tom Waits, Dave Grusin, Joe Raposo, Fred Nail--vi aggiunge composizioni dei due collaboratori e una di Ralph Towner, con testi propri o altrui (particolarente belli ...

Extended Analysis

Norma Winstone: Dance Without Answer

by John Kelman
February 11, 2014

If there's a single accomplishment that can be attributed to ECM Records--though there are, of course, many in its 45-year history--it's that it welcomes unusual instrumentation with open arms, affording such collaborations the opportunity to grow, to evolve, and build a new language. From the pan-cultural CODONA Trilogy (2009), which collected the three genre-defying recordings made in the late '70s/early '80s by Collin Walcott, Don Cherry and Nana Vasconcelos, to Jon Balke's Siwan (2009), which collected, amongst others, Fourth World ...