The Wooden Glass feat. Billy Wooten ~ Live [Interim, 1972]

A1. Monkey Hips & Rice
A2. Only Just Begun ~ Written By P. Williams , R. Nichols
A3. Joy Ride 8:16

B1. In The Rain 5:25 ~ Written-By: T. Hester
B2. Day Dreaming 5:23 ~ Written By: A. Franklin
B3. Love Is Here 12:38 ~ Written-By - K. Gamble, L. Huff



Vibraphone ~ Billy Wooten
Traps ~ Harold Cardwell
Guitar ~ William Roach
Organ ~ Emmanuel Riggins

Recorded live at The 19th Hole, Indianapolis, Indiana 1972.

'Mad funky vibes from The Wooden Glass - a group led by vibist Billy Wooten - an obscure player in the history books, but one who has had a huge influence on 21st Century groove! Billy's got a hard style on the vibes that's like Bobby Hutcherson & Roy Ayers at their soulful best - working here with a tight combo that includes guitar & organ, very much in the mode of his classic work with the slightly more famous [although equally obscure] Indianapolis combo The Ninteenth Whole. The set's a live one, but it really cooks with a sweet electric feel - echoey, funky, and soulful - as tunes spin out in a staggering approach to the vibes that's unmatched by any record of its time. Billy was a huge influence on Madlib and the sound of Yesterday's New Quintet - and hearing this set, it's virtually a blueprint for that group's current work.' ~ crusty groove hype ... 320 velvety vibes to the og uploada

P.E. Hewitt Jazz Ensemble ~ Winter Winds [1972]

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

Stark Reality ~ Now

01 Junkman's Song
02 Thirty Days Hath September
03 Cooking
04 Comrades
05 Shooting Stars
06 Rocket Ship
07 Dreams
08 All You Need To Make Music
09 Roller Coaster Ride
10 Too Much Tenderness
11 Sunday's Song
12 Say Brother

Monty Stark [vocals, vibraphone]; Phil Morrison [vocals, electric bass]; Vinnie Johnson [vocals, drums, percussion]; John Abercrombie [guitar]; Carl Atkins [flute, saxophone, baritone saxophone]; Stanton Davis, Jr. [trumpet]; Alan Reed [electric bass]



crusty groove hype: 'One of the most tripped-out albums of funk ever. a rare treasure with a very unusual history. The Stark Reality were a cool little combo formed to work on public television in Boston in the late 60s featuring some heavy guitars, fuzzed-up vibes, and some monster percussion laid out in tight bass & drum rhythms that were years ahead of their time. The group recorded one rare album -- ostensibly a children's record, but based around old compositions by Hoagy Carmichael, completely pulled apart, sliced up, overly harmonized, and spat out into wild funky tunes that bear no resemblance to their originals! The original album -- Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop -- has been a holy grail for collectors for years [we once sold a copy for hundreds of dollars], and the music has only ever really been heard by a few dedicated beatheads that have tracked down rare copies. Now, though, the geniuses at Stones Throw have put out the whole LP, plus bonus material, in one fantastic package that is soon to make the Stark Reality legends amongst funky fans the world over! Mad vibes meet fuzzy guitars meet killer funky beats -- and the whole thing's a masterpiece that will never be duplicated again!' mas. amazin distorted vibraphonique magic band otherness throughout. 320k for the noodle bakers. yea