Norma Winstone live in concert.
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Norma Winstone

9
critic concert reviews
jazz

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

87
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Last 12 Months Rating  
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Real Live Certified  

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Critic Consensus

Norma Winstone is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 9 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Norma Winstone is rated as an exceptional live performer, with noteworthy shows that are worth watching. Norma Winstone concert reviews describe live shows and performances as seamless, cerebral, and rhythmic.

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Latest Release

Outpost of Dreams (5 July 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
jazz
Origin
Bow, United Kingdom (9/23/1941)
Bio
Norma Ann Winstone (born 23 September 1941, in Bow, East London) is a British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her wordless improvisations.
Has Performed With
Charles Lloyd

Critic Concert Reviews

Jazzwise (UK)

February 2, 2024
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Kit Downes with Norma Winstone, Tord Gustavsen and more fire up Sparks & Visions festival in Bavaria

Jazzwise (UK)

April 4, 2022
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Alyn Shipton reports back on a star-studded and spellbinding night at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

The Telegraph (UK)

April 8, 2018
80
%
For decades, much of the excitement in jazz has come from Europe, partly because the jazz seed found such fertile soil there, mingling with Italian and Balkan and heaven knows how many other folk traditions to produce colourful new hybrids.

The Arts Desk (UK)

November 18, 2016
100
%
From intimate chamber jazz to the gravitas of a full orchestra the two sets seamlessly blended every aspect of Winstone’s artistry.

The Guardian (UK)

November 17, 2016
80
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But the east London-born vocalist credits a raft of models nonetheless: the musicians she has shared road-life with for over 50 years.

Jazzwise (UK)

September 29, 2016
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Founded five years ago, Limerick JF always comes up with interesting and/or unexpected players or presentations.

The Guardian (UK)

November 20, 2014
80
%
The best of it worked as modern American composed music but it rarely worked as jazz – the solos being mostly pinches of spice sprinkled over elaborate recipes.

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