''Somewhere Called Home'' is an album by English jazz singer and lyricist

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recorded in July 1986 and released on

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the following year. The trio features pianist

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and reed player

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Reception

The

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review by Stephen Cook awarded the album 4½ stars, stating: "It's not only a watermark of Winstone's career but, in the long line of modern vocal outings released since the romantic vocal tradition of

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and

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ended with free jazz and fusion, the disc stands out as one most original yet idyllic of vocal jazz recordings."

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called ''Somewhere Called Home'' "a classic vocal album". Writing for ECM blog ''Between Sound and Space'' Tyran Grillo writes: "After her stunning contributions to ECM via the enigmatic outfit known as

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, jazz vocalist Norma Winstone broke out, or should I say broke in, her solo career with ''Somewhere Called Home''.... She lends her sympathetic draw to the canonic tree while also hanging it with her own lyric adornments to the music of

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, and

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. The finished session is burnished to a dim reflection of yesteryear."

Track listing

# "Cafe" (

) – 7:56 # "Somewhere Called Home" (

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) – 4:22 # "Sea Lady" (

/Norma Winstone) – 4:23 # "Some Time Ago" (

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) – 5:38 # "Prologue" (

Bill Evans William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block ch ...

/Norma Winstone) – 3:58 # "Celeste" (

/Norma Winstone) – 6:12 # " Hi Lili Hi Lo" ( Bronislaw Kaper/

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) – 4:28 # " Out of This World" (

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) – 5:55 # " Tea For Two" (

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) – 4:55

Personnel

– voice *

– piano *

–

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tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

References

{{Authority control ECM Records albums 1987 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher