Norma Winstone

The great British jazz singer Norma Winstone once again casts her net wide for source material for this third ECM album with Italian pianist Glauco Venier and German clarinetist / saxophonist Klaus Gesing. Alongside new pieces by Winstone/Gesing and by Venier, the trio covers tunes by singer-songwriters Nick Drake, Fred Neil and Tom Waits. They take a fresh approach to Madonna’s “Live To Tell”, and to Dave Grusin’s “It Might Be You”, as well as Ralph Towner’s “A Breath Away” (now with lyrics by Norma) and “Bein’ Green”, a children’s song elevated to jazz standard status by Sinatra, Stan Kenton, Ray Charles and many more. “As Winstone moves ever farther from the Great American Songbook,” All About Jazzobserved, “it's certain that, with band mates as sympathetic as Gesing and Venier, there's precious little she can't do.”

PERSONNEL:

NORMA WINSTONE, voice
GLAUCO VENIER, piano
KLAUS GESING, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone

Recorded December 2012.

TRACKS:

01. Dance Without Answer
02. Cucurrucucu Paloma
03..High Places
04. Gust Da Essi Viva
05. Ator Ator
06. Live To Tell Music
07. It Might Be You
08. Time Of No Reply
09. San Diego Serenade
10. A Breath Away
11. Bein' Green
12. Slow Fox
13. Everybody's Talkin'