01. Im Wondering Why
02. More Than Anything
03. Its Got Two, And Thats Alright (Show Me The Way)
04. Ill Love Song
05. Oma Rakas
06. The Winter Wind
07. Baon Que Bash
08. Tuija
09. Betrayed
10. Its Doesnt Matter...Yes It Does,...But I Cant Stop
'P.E. Hewitt’s Winter Winds is one 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, a composer, arranger, vibraphonist, pianist and pilot, helmed a crack group of musicians and recorded a damn-good album… Without ever taking the time out to name his record company. His three albums – pressed in a maximum run of one hundred pieces per album – recently surfaced. 'Winter Winds' is so damn-good that neither a micro press nor forty years of silence could suppress its reemergence.' ~ egon
'A brilliantly soulful set from the PE Hewitt Jazz Ensemble – an early 70s group with a style that mixes the sunny and the spiritual! Hewitt's group works at a level that's definitely in line with some of our favorite indie jazz at the time – really pushing the boundaries with a great sense of spirit – stretching out towards new ideas, yet never getting too free or too outside to lose their sense of swing. But at another level, there's a slightly groovy undercurrent to the record too – one that comes from the wordless vocals of singer Nina Scheller, whose style reminds us a bit of the singing on the Sound Of Feeling record with Oliver Nelson – particularly given the modal grooves on the best numbers here. Rhythms are really in the lead at the album's strongest points – driven by Phil Hewitt's work on piano and vibes, and topped with alto sax and flugelhorn too.' ~ crusty groove
we love vibraphone & weird, wordless vocals. Phil Hewitt was only 19 when he dropped 'Winter Winds', his third privately pressed album as a leader. this one falls somewhere between the Butterflies, Cortex & Stark Reality, but those are admittedly lazy comparisons, like most comparisons in general. fabulous percussion too. just don't sleep, dear friend
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