Norma Winstone

Norma Winstone is an English jazz singer and lyricist, born in 1941 in Bow, East London. She started with jazz standards and moved into the British avant-garde, becoming known for wordless improvisation and for the trio Azimuth with John Taylor and Kenny Wheeler, which recorded for ECM from 1977. Winstone sang in Michael Garrick's band. Her first album under her own name, Edge of Time, came out on Argo in 1972. Somewhere Called Home (ECM, 1987) is a trio date with Taylor and Tony Coe.