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p.e. hewitt jazz ensemble - winter winds (complete works 68-70) - now again - cd

Genre: Jazz

1. Free
2. Ihadmyheadoverthechickensouppot
3. Mary
4. Dont Judge Your Brother
5. Cat House Blues
6. The Ones Left Behind
7. Betrayed
8. Bullheads In My Shoes Blues
9. Karen
10. Alone And Watching
11. Sad Sunday
12. Now Is Here
13. Donna
14. 3 AM
16. Tender Morning
17. Im Wondering Why
18. More Than Anything
19. Its Got Two Names And Thats Alright
20. Ill Love Song
21. Oma Rakas
22. The Winterwind
23. Bada Que Bash
24. Tuija

Masterpieces in deep/modal/ spiritual jazz from a teenaged wunderkind, recorded and released from 1968-1970. The three lost albums by the Bay Area vibraphonist/ composer/arranger PE Hewitt. Packaged in a hard back box that includes exact reproductions of the three original albums and a 44-page book with extensive liner notes, photos, interview and annotation. TIP!

P.E. Hewitt was but 16 years old when he recorded and released - in a press of 50 copies - his debut album 'Jawbones.' By the time he sold through the 100 copies of this third, Winter Winds, he was approaching the ripe-age of 20. The three albums he and his young compatriots wrote, recorded, pressed and - if you can call it that - distributed, are three of the rarest damn-good 70s jazz albums you could ever hope to come across. That's a subtle, but important distinction. There are many rare jazz albums in every imaginable subgenre - funk, free, fusion... But Hewitt's three albums were so good that neither micro presses nor forty years of silence could
suppress their reemergence.

Now-Again decided against compiling a "best of" anthology out of respect for Hewitt's monstrous achievements. Thus, here's a three album box set - directly recreated as the albums were issued, down to their hand-painted covers. So also included is a 44-page booklet which includes the original liner notes from the albums, an essay on Hewitt and his career, a thorough interview with Hewitt by Egon and Groove Merchant "Cool" Chris Veltri, and never before seen photos.