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A fine, Oxford -based singer, composer and teacher, who was much admired by Norma Winstone, to whose vocal approach she owed much, alongside that of Joni Mitchell. Tributes in the link below:
The Oxford-based singer, singing teacher and jazz writer Alison Bentley died at the age of 65 in the early hours of last Friday morning, after a long illness, at her home in East Oxford. Saxophonist Jamie O'Donnell, a member of the same 1991-92 cohort in the first postgraduate course in jazz at Guildhall, remembers her,
