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Craft Recordings presents Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums, a new 180g vinyl 3LP collection (pressed at RTI) that explores Sonny Rollins' output for Lester Koenig's revered Los Angeles jazz label. Newly cut from the original analog tapes by Gramm

The second release in the series, Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, pairs two of history's most influential jazz artists. While they were at different stages in their careers when this 1957 session was recorded, they both possessed the same rebellious s

First-ever vinyl reissue of Mambo Diablo, the acclaimed 1985 album from legendary bandleader and percussionist Tito Puente. Offering a lively blend of standards and originals (including fan favorite "Mambo Diablo") this long-out-of-print classic finds the

Que Viva La Música just turned 50 and features Ray Barretto at his peak of the "Hard Salsa" era. The album contains the track "Cocinando" from the famed documentary Our Latin Thing which alone makes the record worth the price of admission. Other key track

Acoustic Sounds celebrates Contemporary Records with this new reissue of the West Side Story album by pianist André Previn, bassist Red Mitchell and drummer Shelly Manne. Originally released in 1960, the album contains eight cuts from the musical soundtra

Along with B.B. and Freddie, Albert King will forever be hailed as one of the original "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar." Cutting a dynamic 6' 4" figure on stage while playing his 1958 Gibson Flying V upside down to accommodate his left-handedness, Albert

The groove connoisseurs of Jazz Dispensary take you back to the summer of 1978, to an imaginary hotel deep in the heart of the French Riviera, for a day of love, abandonment and a whole lot of psychedelia, soundtracked by the sweet themes of Dizzy Gillesp

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of John Lee Hooker’s electrifying blues classic, Burnin’, this 180-gram reissue offers newly remastered audio from the original analog tapes. Featuring a stereo mix of the album, as it was first released in 1962, the set i

Saxophonist Benny Carter's Jazz Giant album boasts performances by André Previn, Shelly Manne, Barney Kessel and Ben Webster amongst others. First released in 1958 and recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, this new edition features all-analog masteri

This superb recording features a reunion of two of jazz's finest - tenor-saxophonist Coleman Hawkins and clarinetist Pee Wee Russell. At the time of this session, the two had not been on a recording date together in 32 years. The elder statesman of jazz s

First-ever vinyl reissue of critically acclaimed Saharan Tuareg group Tinariwen's third album, Aman Iman: Water Is Life . Released internationally via Independiente in 2007, reissued here on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl, the album was produced by long-time

Genie Of The Keys: The Best Of Korla Pandit collects sixteen choice cuts featuring Pandit’s inspired blend of Eastern, Latin, and South Pacific musical traditions. Among the artist’s original compositions is his famous “Magnetic Theme,” which opened Korla

Craft Recordings are pleased to reissue Big Star's acclaimed, first two albums on 180-gram vinyl. #1 Record and Radio City feature all-analog mastering by Jeff Powell at Memphis' Take Out Vinyl, and were also manufactured locally – in Big Star's hometown

Much like Art Pepper, a fellow Angelino, Hampton Hawes would make an excellent subject for a Hollywood biopic (and like Pepper's memoir Straight Life, Hawes' Raise Up Off Me is a classic account of the jazz life that could serve as the screenplay). Even m

2021 marked 70 years of Contemporary Records, the Los Angeles-based audiophile jazz label that both defined and radically expanded the sound of West Coast jazz. Throughout the '50s, '60s and '70s, Lester Koenig's artist-friendly company released career-de

Craft Recordings is proud to reissue You Must Believe in Spring, the celebrated 70th studio album from the pioneering jazz pianist Bill Evans. Recorded in 1977 and released in 1981, just months after Evans' death, the album marks the artist's final studio

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Newly curated compilation of classic and rare R&B, doo-wop and soul tracks from the catalogs of Fania, Stax, Vee-Jay and more. Pressed on clear and black swirled vinyl.

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Craft Recordings releases I, Jonathan – the 1992 lo-fi masterpiece from singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman – on vinyl for the very first time! I, Jonathan is a standout title from the offbeat artist's solo catalog and features such fan favorites as "I Was