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Jazz vocalist Pinky Winters recorded one album in the 1950s, another in the 1960s, then married and retired from the jazz circuit. Today copies of both those highly regarded out-of-print LP's command many hundreds of dollars apiece on the record collectors' market. Since the 1960s, Winters has surfaced in the recording studio only three times. But each appearance has proved worth the wait.

In 1985, she cut "Let's Be Buddies (Jacqueline Records)" in 1994, "This Happy Madness (Verve)," and 2001 saw the release of "As Long as There's Music" (Koch Jazz), a collaboration with Lou Levy and the Netherlands Metropole Jazz Orchestra. For many years now, the esteemed British pianist-connect hall-film soundtrack composer, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, has wanted to record with Winters. For her, the feeling has been mutual. Now, that long-awaited encounter has finally taken place with "Rain Sometimes."

Writes the veteran jazz vocalist Carol Sloane in her liner notes for the original (now out-of-print) U.S. issue "Rain Sometimes": "You may be unfamiliar with the work of Pinky Winters, but with resolute confidence in the exquisite music contained on this disc, I believe you will join the hundreds of musicians and other singers who have been her staunchest admirers for many years, in spite of the fact that so few of her precise interpretations have been heretofore readily available. This is a voice which will enchant you now and evermore."

"A soft, reflective collection by an underrated 'singer's singer' whose reputation is more than justified." ---Rex Reed, The New York Observer