Pinky Winters

Pinky Winters: Lonely One

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 9, 2018

First, let me say there are no bad Pinky Winters albums—and they span more than 50 years. Which is extraordinary, since many singers' early albums are often best and get progressively lighter as the voice ages and work slows. Second, great musicians have always been smitten with Winters's phrasing and tone, which is reedy, jazzy and deftly inventive. So it comes as no surprise that her big inspiration from the time she was 15 was Sarah Vaughan. On each of ...
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Jazz Singer Pinky Winters Records With Richard Rodney Bennett

Source: All About Jazz

Writes the veteran jazz vocalist Carol Sloane in her liner notes for “Rain Sometimes":

“You may be unfamiliar with the work of Pinky Winters, but with resolute confidence in the exquisite music contained on this disc, I believe you will join the hundreds of musicians and others singers who have been her staunchest admirers for many years, in spite of the fact that so few of her precise interpretations have been heretofore readily available. This is a voice which will ...
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JAZZ SINGER PINKY WINTERS TO RECORD WITH RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT

Source: All About Jazz

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