Dance Without Answer will be Norma Winstone’s latest and third album for ECM to be released on 20 January in the UK, the label’s UK distributor has confirmed.

Tracks are the title track ‘Dance Without Answer’, Mexican folk tune ‘Cucurrucucu Paloma’, ‘High Places’, ‘Gust Da Essi Viva’, ‘Ator Ator’, ‘Live To Tell Music’ (the Madonna/Patrick Leonard song Bill Frisell covered on the album Have a Little Faith), Dave Grusin’s ‘It Might Be You’, (the theme for the 1982 film comedy Tootsie), Nick Drake’s ‘Time Of No Reply’ (an out-take from Five Leaves Left), Tom Waits’ ‘San Diego Serenade’ (from 1974's The Heart of Saturday Night), Ralph Towner’s ‘A Breath Away’ with new words by Winstone, children’s song ‘Bein’ Green’, ‘Slow Fox’, and the song ‘Everybody’s Talkin’, practically synonymous with Nilsson.

Winstone, who is one of the greatest English jazz singers in the music's history, is joined once more on Dance Without Answer by Italian pianist Glauco Venier, and by German clarinettist/saxophonist Klaus Gesing who both appeared with the singer on 2009’s Stories Yet To Tell, and the Grammy-nominated Distances from the year before. Winstone’s last record saw her featured with her former Azimuth playing partner Kenny Wheeler on the highly acclaimed and rather beautiful album Mirrors released earlier this year.

Norma Winstone, at the Royal Academy of Music, London, in November 2012, above