SINCE WASHINGTON by P.E. HEWITT JAZZ ENSEMBLE

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.