New Haven Advocate
CD Review
Monday June 12, 2006
By Brian G LaRue

KENT HEWITT CD REVIEW

Little Town by the Sea (12 track CD)  

If I were a Groton town official who said to Kent Hewitt , I’m commissioning you to record a light-sounding CD about Groton” and Hewitt returned with this 50-minute arc incorporating pop jazz, lounge jazz, new music, bossa nova, Puritan hymns, light swing, spoken word, ragtime and waltz, I’d be pleasantly surprised by his ambition. It’s not readily evident that this is a conceptual cycle about a Connecticut city and its history (only one track- features a vocal), but the score does hang together, with recurring motifs. While it’s not physical music-even the ragtime bits are measured and cautious- it’s arranged and played with expertise and style.

                                                                                                            Brian G. LaRue

Kent Hewitt and the Noank Jazz Trio are at Aleia’s in Saybrook on June 17.
Kent’s music is also part of Groton Regional Theater’s The Duchess of Noank,
celebrating Groton’s 300^th Anniversary, June 23-26 at the Groton Senior Center. (Route 117, Groton)