Doug Hewitt: Welcome
The Black Sheep concert was a triumph! The audience was wonderful. Every seat was filled, people standing in the back and dancing in the hall. David Beauvais on sax with us and people just loved him. We opened with two really 'up' jazz tunes but mostly we played Doug Hewitt originals. Then some rock covers. Nancy Rockland-Miller Band opened for us and they totally rocked. A really great evening I'll never want to forget.
Hey! We see you taking pictures. Send them to us at WatercourseRec@aol.com. Your photography on this website and your name! (If you want)
SALE! The response to the lower CD price has been so great that we are keeping it! More great news: Picasso Tomato has been named by CD Baby as one of their top selling jazz-rock albums! Thanks to you Picasso Tomato is a success.
Picasso Tomato is available at lower prices three different ways: #1: Send a check for $11 (shipping incl.) to Doug Hewitt PO Box 199 Amherst, MA 01004. #2: At CD Baby it's $10 by credit card. (Click on the little CD below) #3: For $9 you can download it as MP3 at CD Baby right now! Go figure. Or get both Picasso Tomato and Event Horizons for $18 (shipping incl.) Send a check to Doug Hewitt PO Box 199 Amherst, MA 01004 Check it out by clicking on the little CD... 
Oh, and one more new thing: check out the new PHOTO page. (go to PHOTOS in menu above)
Picasso Tomato is a jazz/rock album with a high degree of stylistic diversity. I intentionally placed songs of contrast next to each other. (click on LISTEN above) Maybe it's for that reason that some reviewers have called Picasso Tomato a "concept album." Others have noted its writing, musicianship and production values. I will say that this album represents three years of my very best work. It is music of the heart and hundreds of studio hours. The painting on the cover reflects the artistic diversity of this CD -like a gallery where each room features a different style: abstract, realist, impressionist... A wide-ranging album with original songs spanning jazz to rock and folk with classical excursions. In addition to my electric and acoustic guitars and voice there's lots of great musicians playing a variety of instruments: violin, saxophone, piano, synthesizer, tons of harmonies, drums, bass and percussion. This is music of the round in a cube world. Or maybe versa-visa. Unexpect the expected.
It has become less common to include more than one genre or energetic state on a single album. To bookend rock and folk styles between jazz instrumentals can render an album virtually unclassifiable. I have always appreciated diversity and eclecticism in art. I hope you enjoy!
The Doug Hewitt Group performs uniquely original rock & jazz drawing from many years of song writing plus covers ranging from John Coltrane to the Beatles. Last year Doug released "Picasso Tomato" his 6th album of all original music which is the group's main source of material. The band is Doug Hewitt on guitar and vocals, John Crankshaw on drums, Mitch Pine on piano, Robby Roiter on bass, Amy Bateman on violin, plus they welcome their newest member Danielle Lorenzo on vocals. The Doug Hewitt Group performs three types of shows: jazz, rock and originals which fuse those genres. Come to a DHG show and expect to hear great music played by amazing musicians. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
Other bands I am currently playing with are: the Northampton Jazz Jam, the Carol Abbe Smith Ensemble, the Nancy Rockland-Miller Band and the E-Town Jazz Band. Plus I am a frequent guest guitarist with the Northampton Basement Club Jazz Band and the Interplay Jazz Band. You never know where I may be next! Well, actually now you CAN find out where I will be with the CALENDAR link at the top of the page.
In the '90s Doug and brother Scott's band Zen Cats toured the Northeast to fans hungry for the sound of our unique jazz-tinged high-energy rock. The album Event Horizons also includes some gentler and introspective bluesy and jazzy pieces. 12 songs that make you feel like you are at a live Zen Cats concert! Very much a collaboration, the Hewitt brothers share the songwriting credits on this album. Doug: guitar & vocals, Scott: bass, Glen Stegner: keys, Dave Noonan, Loren Weisman and Scott MacIntire: drums. Extra points to anyone who can tell us what the cover is a photograph of!
A great art-rock album and a band name was born when I sent my brother a demo tape of the mostly finished music for this album and Scott sent back an envelope full of lyrics. 12 eclectic, electric, acoustic, progressive rock, jazz, folk, outside-the-box songs. We even named a song Zen Cats.