Pinky Winters: West Coast Songstress

The jazz vocalist had a beautiful sound in 1954 and '56—two albums on one Fresh Sound CD

Pinky Winters was the consummate jazz singer. She’s still with us today, but in the 1950s, when she began recording, she had a knockout voice right out of the gate. On ballads she was all heart; on mid-tempo ballads she had room to fool around tastefully with melodies; and on uptempo numbers she was a savvy swinger. [Photo above of Pinky Winters]