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Norma Winstone - Kit Downes

Outpost of Dreams

ECM
Release Date: July 12, 2024

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1 El  
2 Wych Hazel  
3 Jesus Maria  
4 Beneath an Evening Sky  
5 Out of the Dancing Sea  
6 The Steppe  
7 Nocturne  
8 Black Is the Colour  
9 In Search of Sleep  
10 Rowing Home  
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Her first ECM recording in six years finds Norma Winstone in a new duo with pianist Kit Downes. A unique artist as both jazz vocalist and lyricist, here Norma brings her poetic sensibilities to new pieces by Downes as well as compositions by Carla Bley, Ralph Towner, and John Taylor. The programme is completed with fresh perspectives on two traditional tunes, “Black Is The Colour” and “Rowing Home.” The duo, Norma says, was “a chance thing”, a musical unit formed almost accidentally. Winstone’s regular pianist for work in Britain, Nikki Iles, was unavailable for a gig in London, “so I booked Kit. I’d never played with him before. And of course, he could play everything immediately, and amazingly. So we did a few more concerts, and I found I responded to the sense of adventure in his playing. You never know quite what is going to happen, and I love that quality.” When London Jazz News collected a round-up of greetings for Norma’s 80th birthday, she recalls, Downes wrote: “Can’t wait to jump off musical cliffs together again in the near future.” She laughs: “That’s the way we both think of it. We’ll see where the project takes us. “

  • This absorbing new album from Norma Winstone and Kit Downes: 'Outpost of Dreams,' is a marvel / the arts fuse
    Posted At: July 19, 2024 12:00 AM
    the arts fuse - Michael Ullman writes…The adventurous British singer once described her musical life in this way: “I’ve always been on the edge, always felt like I was swimming against the tide and somehow couldn’t stop.“ Always has been over the course of a half century. Norma Winstone was born in 1941. Even her honors seem a little distant. In 1971, she was voted the top singer in the Melody Maker Jazz Po...
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