Stinky Winkles

UK jazz band founded in 1978. The band played extensively both nationally (Bracknell Jazz Festival, Manchester ‘Band on the Wall’ and Bath Festival) and with tours in Europe (Holland, France, Spain and Poland), giving several BBC Radio (2 & 3) broadcasts, as well as performing in main London venues like the Round House, Ronnie Scotts, The Duke of York Theatre and the South Bank. Nominated ‘Young Jazz Musicians of 1979’ by the Greater London Arts Association and won three other first prizes at the Dunkirk Jazz Festival (1980), San Sebastian Jazz Festival (Spain 1981) and Jazz-on-the-Odra Festival (Wroclaw, Poland 1981), part of this prize consisted of the group making a vinyl LP record for the Polish state label - Poljazz. The only other recording of the band is a one-minute piece recorded for the Morgan Fisher's project Miniatures.