Brady Winterstein - Happy Together (2011)

Bireli Lagrene is famed for his youthful entry in to the music business, touring and recording by his early teens. For many years Lagrene was accompanied on rhythm guitar by Hono Winterstein, and now Hono is providing accompaniment again to another precociously talented prodigy, his own nephew Brady, aged 17. Happy Together is the first album by the Brady Winterstein Trio (bassist Xavier Nicq being the third member), with assorted guest invitees contributing violin, accordion etc. Indubitably Gypsy Jazz in style, the actual content of the album ranges further afield taking in jazz standards, show tunes, The Beatles, the Theme from Mash and more. One element to the fore throughout is the astonishing dexterity of Winterstein the Younger on the guitar. Another Lagrene in the making, perchance?

Tracklist:

1. Happy together (A. Gordon/G. Bonner) 3’16
2. Harlem nocturne (E. Hagen) 4’24
3. Flèche d’or (D. Reinhardt) 2’05
4. Lady Madonna (J. Lennon/P. McCartney) 2’05
5. Suicide is painless (J. Mandel) 3’47
6. Smoiserie (H. Winterstein) 4’20
7. You rascal you (S. Theard) 3’19
8. Joseph, Joseph (S. Cahn/S. Chaplin) 3’47
9. Swing 39 (D. Reinhardt/S. Grappelli) 2’23
10 I’ve had my moments (W. Donaldson/G. Kahn) 2’29
11. Dinette (J. Reinhardt) 2’32
12. Solo of bro (C. Lukacs) 3’48
13. Softly as in morning sunrise (S. Romberg/O. Hammerstein) 2’35
14. Solitude (D. Ellington) 3’37
15. La gitane (Tchan Tchou) 1’55