Norma Winstone Inspirations

The Weekend Starts Here

Thursday February 27

Norma Winstone Inspirations

Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, Soho, London

The Weekend Starts Here_Jazz at Pizza Express Jazz Club

With 60+ years of performing experience, Norma Winstone, continues as one of our most wonderful jazz singers and arrives at Dean Street to open our new Thursday Lunchtime’s “Weekend Starts Here series.

Admired for her versatility, improvising vocalise and writing original material, (who could ever forget Ladies in Mercedes) Norma performs her collection of songs which were performed and sometimes written by artists who have inspired her over the years. These include Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Randy Newman, to name but a few.

Norma has collected a whole series of awards, including BBC Jazz Awards Best Vocalist, a Lifetime Achievement in Jazz award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians, the Parliamentary Jazz Awards for Best Singer, and Lifetime Achievement, plus Jazz FM’s Best Singer accolade.

She is also a Fellow of Trinity Laban and Honary Member of the Royal Academy of Music.

Here is a taste of what’s in store with Norma singing “Celeste” by Ralph Towner. Wonderfully romantic.

Norma enjoys a lengthy list of recordings and concert appearance with great accompanists, including Kit Downes and Gwilym Simcock plus her long-standing musical partners, 

Nikki Iles- piano; 

Mark Lockheart- saxophones and 

Steve Watts – double bass,

accompanying Norma at this “Inspitations” concert.

 

““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

 

Doors Noon

Music 1pm

Tickets £30

 

 

The Weekend Starts Here” series

Thursday 1pm Lunchtime Concerts at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, Soho.

75 minutes of wonderful music, from UK Jazz greats, for happy jazz lovers,whether in between your work, 

or making a special London return daytime trip, across February to June 2025. 

A short walk from Oxford Street bus routes and the Tottenham Court Road stations on Elizabeth and Northern lines 

Featuring :-

Callum Au, Alan Barnes, Joanna Eden, Nikki Iles, Chris Ingham,

Derek Nash, David Newton, Simon Spillett, Tom Smith, Simon Thorpe, Norma Winstone and many more.

Other forthcoming events in this series

Jivin’ Miss Daisy – a Swinging Lunch
@Pizza Express Live: Dean Street
Thu 27th Mar 2025 1PM Jazz
The Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet
@Pizza Express Live: Dean Street

The Derek Nash
Acoustic Quartet

The Weekend Starts Here

Thu 3rd Apr 2025 1PM Jazz
Chris Ingham’s Jazz At The Movies featuring Joanna Eden
@Pizza Express Live: Dean Street
Thu 24th Apr 2025 1PM Jazz
The Callum Au Big Band
@Pizza Express Live: Dean Street

The Callum Au Big Band

The Weekend Starts Here

Thu 22nd May 2025 1PM Jazz
Barnes – Spillett – Brown – Tracey
@Pizza Express Live: Dean Street
Thu 29th May 2025 1PM Jazz