The official web site for British jazz singer and lyricist Norma Winstone.

In a career spanning more than 50 years, she is held internationally in high regard for singing with small groups, big bands and orchestras and also for her remarkable ability to improvise.

“One of the Glories of contemporary Jazz”
– Jazz Journal

“Right now, she is at the peak of her form… there is no jazz singer in the country to touch her.”
– Alyn Shipton, The Times, London

“Sets herself impossibly high standards, and then surpasses them.”
– Tony Sloman, Pizza On the Park

“Norma Winstone’s instrument: an unfettered intelligence spinning tales with language…or without”
– Thomas Conrad, Down Beat Magazine

“Her spare, subtle and intelligent approach to improvisation, jazz standards, impressionistic tone poetry like a vocal Jan Garbarek and the uncovering of overlooked songs that deserve to be classics, put her in the forefront of European singers.”
– John Fordham, The Guardian

“It is unlikely that there is a better jazz singer than Miss Winstone. She has none of the histrionics which mar so much of the work of her contemporaries, and one is left with tasteful ideas, expressed in pure musical form.”
– Steve Voce, Jersey Evening Post

“.. a one-of-a-kind singer blessed with an ear nonpareil… tones so pure, phrasing so unique and captivating, as to make each song an aural adventure.”
– The Skanner, Portland, Oregon

“.. a superb example of state-of-the-art, imaginative, virtually beyond-definition singing.”
– Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times