Hono Winterstein

Paul "Hono" Winterstein (born February 27, 1962 in Forbach ) is a French guitarist of gypsy jazz .

Live and act

Biréli Lagrène and Hono Winterstein

Winterstein came from a musical Manouche family; his brother Jean-Louis "Popots" Winterstein is also a swing manouche guitarist. He learned to play the guitar at an early age, influenced by the music of Django Reinhardt . In 1978 he played with Dorado Schmitt in the Gino Reinhardt Trio. Since then he has worked as a rhythm guitarist a . a. with Dorado ( Notre histoire , 1985) and Samson Schmitt , Tchavolo Schmitt , Patrick Saussois and since 2001 with Biréli Lagrène , with whom he also toured in the United States and Japan. According to Tom Lord , Winterstein was involved in eleven recording sessions from 1985 to 2014, also with Wawau Adler , Martin Weiss , Adrien Moignard , Sara Lazarus ( It's All Right with Me ) and Marcel Loeffler ( Around Gus Dreyfus 2010). He also accompanied Patricia Kaas .

In the film Django: A Life for the Music by Etienne Comar, he plays the musician Toto Hoffman.

Web links

• Web presence
• Portrait (djangostation.com)
• HONO Winterstein at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 19, 2016)
2. ↑ Entry (RadioSwissJazz) ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Hono Winterstein in the Internet Movie Database (English)