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Check out the new music player at the top of the screen! You can fast foward or rewind to any song from Picasso Tomato.
The Doug Hewitt Group and the Nancy Rockland-Miller Band are teaming up for a bunch of concerts. Plus David Beauvais is joining us on sax and people just love him! The NRMB opens with great folk-rock originals from her soon to be released new album. Then the DHG warms up with a few jazz tunes followed by originals, including some brand new songs! Then both bands come back on stage for a third set of grooving covers. Seats fill quickly so try to arrive early. We see people standing outside and we really wish everyone could come in.
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 and jazz and covers ranging from Coltrane to the Beatles. In 2006 Doug released "Picasso Tomato" his 6th album of all original music which is the group's main source of original material. The band is Doug Hewitt guitar and vocals, John Crankshaw drums, Mitch Pine piano, Robby Roiter bass, Nancy Rockland-Miller and Danielle Lorenzo 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.