Career
In a career spanning more than 40 years she is best known for her wordless improvisations. Born as Norma Short in Bow, East London, she began singing in bands around Dagenham in the early 1960s, before joining Michael Garrick"s band in 1968. Her first recording came the following year, with Joe Harriott.
In 1971 she was voted top singer in the Melody Maker Jazz Poll.
She recorded the album Edge of Time under her own name in 1972. Winstone contributed vocals to Ian Carr"s Nucleus on that band"s 1973 release Labyrinth, a jazz-rock concept album based on the Greek myth about the Minotaur.
In addition she made an album with the American pianist Jimmy Rowles (Well Kept Secret, 1993).