Together for a decade the great jazz singer Norma Winstone’s trio featuring Italian pianist Glauco Venier and German reeds player Klaus Gesing is one of the most subtle and rewarding contemporary jazz group experiences.

You can feel the hush and consummate poise when they perform, their unique sense of experimentation a surprise and pleasure, the open lines of their original approach unfettered by bass or drums that might otherwise steer them in a more regimented direction.

Dance without Answer released last year extended the remarkable chemistry that made the trio tick in the first place. Following on from 2010’s Stories Yet To Tell and the Grammy-nominated Distances two years earlier now framed more within a contemporary lingua franca of popular song, material ranging from sourcing a Madonna song and scrolling further back ‘Everybody’s Talkin’’ synonymous with the film Midnight Cowboy.

Nothing if not voracious in their range of musical sources it’s an album that also includes a Mexican folk tune, the catchy ‘Cucurrucucu Paloma’, new songs such as ‘High Places’ Winstone has written words to with music by Gesing, as well as Dave Grusin’s ‘It Might Be You’, Nick Drake’s ‘Time Of No Reply’ (an out-take from Five Leaves Left), Ralph Towner’s ‘A Breath Away’ with new words by Winstone, not to mention children’s song ‘Bein’ Green’.

Yet as with their previous albums together, also containing material from disparate sources, a clear thread emerges: it’s a music easily ascertained as having jazz roots but also identifiably music of the beyond requiring in its interpretative power odd clashes or questions unasked or simply unanswerable, who’s doing the dance and who’s not answering an enduring riddle.

Hush and consummate poise... Klaus Gesing top left, Norma Winstone and Glauco Venier. Photo: ECM. The trio play Pizza Express Jazz Club in London on Wednesday evening, click for venue and ticket details