Somewhere Called Home

If the relationship between vocalist Norma Winstone, pianist John Taylor, and reed player Tony Coe took the form of paint, then Somewhere Called Home would be its most ambitious yet most intimate canvas. Into her own emotionally on-point compositions, she blends in music by Egberto Gismonti, Ralph Towner, and Kenny Wheeler to create a portrait of love from many simultaneous angles. Winstone’s direct profundity lends itself naturally to the larger questions of love, loss, and hope explored in every song, while the instrumental contributions of her bandmates speak like interpreters of different languages. Songwriting at its purest.