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p.e. hewitt jazz ensemble - winter winds - now again - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Jazz

1. I'm Wondering Why
2. More Than Anything
3. It's Got Two Names, And That's Alright
4. Ill Love Song
5. Oma Rakas
6. The Winterwind
7. Bada Que Bash
8. Tuija

The three lost albums by the Bay Area vibraphonist/composer/arranger P.E. Hewitt will now be available as stand alone releases for the first time since Richard Nixon was in the White House. Masterpieces in deep/modal/spiritual jazz from a teenaged wunderkind, recorded and released from 1968-1970. Tip!!

P.E. Hewitt was but 16 years old when he recorded and released – in a pressing 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 damn-good that neither micro presses nor forty years of silence could suppress their reemergence.

First in the series, Hewitt’s legendary 1970 release Winter Winds, a mix of modal, latin-tinged, and ethereal vocal jazz.