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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

A master of the congas, Ray Barretto had a particularly wide-ranging and episodic career. As a bandleader, he headed groups that performed Afro-Cuban jazz and others that specialized in salsa. As a sideman in the 1950s, Barretto was one of the first to sh

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

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

35 Anniversary Edition of Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers’ final studio album. Delivering a surprisingly lush sound, the musicians perform an upbeat selection of playful, acoustic tunes, including “I Love Hot Nights,” “African Lady,” and “Gail

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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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Few musicians have embodied the romantic – and ultimately tragic – jazz figure as totally as Chet Baker. Unschooled yet eloquent in his music, and a fast-liver who survived for nearly six decades, the Baker mystique has only reinforced one of the most hau

Few musicians have embodied the romantic – and ultimately tragic – jazz figure as totally as Chet Baker. Unschooled yet eloquent in his music, and a fast-liver who survived for nearly six decades, the Baker mystique has only reinforced one of the most hau