It would be unfair to refer to Deborah Winters as unvarnished, for she is about as polished as jazz vocalists come. But there is a back-to-basics purity about her work that is tremendously appealing. A longtime favorite among jazz-savvy San Franciscans, Winters is refreshingly free of affectation: no vocal acrobatics, no flashy gestures, no showboating-just good songs superbly, straightforwardly interpreted.
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