P.E. Hewitt Jazz Ensemble

about

P.E. Hewitt was 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. We at Now-Again decided against compiling a 'best of' anthology out of respect for Hewitt's monstrous achievements and because, well, these albums are so damn good. Thus, we offer you this series of reissues designed to be as close to the original pressings as possible down to their hand-painted covers. Second in the series, Hewitt's first release Jawbones, a mix of modal and deep jazz that should appeal to fans of Pharaoh Sanders and Archie Shepp. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Jawbones

Winter Winds

Winter Winds - The Complete Works: 1968-70

Winter Winds The Complete Works 1968-70

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Spiritual Jazz - Esoteric, Modal + Deep Jazz From The Underground 1968-77

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This LP Crashes Hard Drives

Spiritual Jazz: Esoteric, Modal + Deep Jazz From The Underground 1968-77

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Spiritual Jazz (Esoteric, Modal and Deep Jazz From The Underground 1968-77)

Since Washington

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Winter Winds: The Complete Works 1968-70

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Grzimek Safari 2

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P.E. Hewitt Jazz Ensemble - Since Washington

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