Brady Winterstein: Happy Together

Album cover art for upc 3149028004021
Label: Plus Loin
Catalog: PL4542
Format: CD

Brady Winterstein, solo guitar

1 Happy together 3'16
2 Harlem nocturne 4'24
3 Flèche d'or 2'05
4 Lady Madona 2'05
5 Suicide is painless 3'47
6 Samoiserie 4'20
7 You rascal you 3'19
8 Joseph Joseph 3'47
9 Swing 39 2'23
10 I've had my moments 2'29
11 Dînette 2'12
12 Solo of bro 3'48
13 Softly as in a morning sunrise 2'35
14 Solitude 3'37
15 La gitane

There are two essential conditions for the birth of a particularly gifted young musician as B.W. is, of whom we are witnesses. Work first of all -work non-stop on his instrument and one can realize, thanks to the intensity of the tunes he can throw all along his album, how much it must be true ("around 10 hours a day modestly asserts the concerned artist") But work only isn't sufficient. Even for someone as talented as he is, better is to be well supported : sensible advices and support are the precious help to avoid more surely the ineluctable series of dangers threatening "the first step in the job". Brady has found in his uncle, Hono Winterstein, Biréli Lagrene's accompanist and fellow traveller (among others), this experienced man he can rely on.
After many participations in studios which allowed him to "get his hand in" (for Django's generation compilation, his uncle Dorado's album Family; or the German violonist Martin Weiss' one), time has come now for this strong fellow to stand on his own two feet. But Hono keeps an eye on him, drawing tunes from the 7O's pop-years in order to refresh the répertoire and form an original background. If he arrives swiftly with the hotheadness of the youth, the chap shows an impressive easiness and freedom, knowing if necessary how to remain in the right tune with elegance.
(theme of MASH,Solitude..) hasn't his uncle arrange things so that he can express himself on a Jean Barault guitar, the same as Biréli's?