Craft Recordings

The debut release of the highly-anticipated recording of CCR at London’s Royal Albert Hall. More than 50... 

Filter’s third studio album, The Amalgamut, is available for the first time on vinyl in celebration of the title’s 20th anniversary. Following... 

Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon... 

Craft Recordings celebrates the 25th anniversary of R.E.M.’s bestselling 11th studio album, Up, with a series of expanded and remastered... 

Craft Recordings celebrates the enduring legacy of R.E.M. with vinyl reissues for two long out-of-print titles from the second half of... 

Craft Recordings celebrates the enduring legacy of R.E.M. with vinyl reissues for two long out-of-print titles from the second half of the... 

Released in 1956 as the debut album by the Miles Davis Quintet, “Miles” features a combination of pop and jazz standards. Originally... 

• Groovy was the third album to be released by acclaimed jazz drummer Red Garland. Originally released on Prestige Records in 1957 this... 

2024 kicks off with the reissue of Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans' Know What I Mean? dropping on March 1. Adderley... 

Also releasing on March 1 is the long-awaited rerelease of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Caravan. "Slick, fluid, professional... 

Following on March 29 is a reissue of Ron Carter's Where?, recorded in 1961. Carter's discography is a sprawling one: The three-time GRAMMY® winner... 

Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of Art Pepper’s 1960 album “Smack Up”. Recorded by legendary engineer... 

Recorded live at the Black Hawk, San Francisco in September 1959, “At The Blackhawk, Vol 1” is the first of... 

Hampton Hawes, “For Real!” was recorded in 1958 but not released on the Contemporary Records label until 1961. Featuring Hawes (piano) alongside... 

Recorded in 1961 and released by Contemporary Records the same year, “Maggie's Back in Town!!” Is the second album released... 

Bringing together trumpeter Howard McGhee and saxophonist Teddy Edwards, “Together Again!!!!” was originally released... 

Released in 1963 on the Contemporary Records label, “The Cry!” Is a free jazz album by saxophonists Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons. Also... 

Recorded live at The Renaissance in Hollywood, CA on Oct 14 1960, Ben Webster “At the Renaissance” was released on Contemporary Records. Featuring... 

Art Pepper’s third album on the Contemporary Records label, “Gettin’ Together” was released in 1960. Featuring a selection of... 

Recorded in 1960, Art Pepper’s 5th album release on Contemporary Records, “Intensity”, was released in 1963. A collection of 7 jazz standards... 

Jazz vocalist Helen Humes’ second album on Contemporary Records, “Songs I Like to Sing!” was released in 1961 and is conducted... 

A classic of the genre, “Way Out West” was tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins’ first album for west coast label Contemporary Records when... 

Available on vinyl for the first time since its original release 50 years ago, the downtempo-funk extravaganza People & Love is a crate-digger's... 

Blending a socially conscious spirit with hard bop, jazz-funk, and electronic elements, Power to the People finds Joe Henderson saxophonist... 

• Released to celebrate influential jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery's centennial, The Complete Full House Recordings... 

The party goes on! Here, in the second part of the historic Christmas salsa album Asalto Navideño, Willie Colón and vocalist... 

• The Cats was released in December 1959 on New Jazz, a subsidiary of Prestige Records. While... 

• Jazz at Oberlin was recorded in the Finney Chapel at Oberlin College in March 1953. It is known... 

• The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album (1975) brings together two legends of... 

Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series presents this 180-gram LP edition of... 

Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series presents this 180-gram LP edition of... 

Sorcery finds DeJohnette teamed up with a tight crew of virtuosic bandmates, including veterans of Miles Davis’s Bitches... 

The very definition of ‘70s soulful jazz, Where I’m Coming From has all the hallmarks of Prestige Records... 

Acoustic Sounds celebrates Contemporary Records with this new... 

Released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series celebrating 70 years of Contemporary Records, Shelly... 

Originally released in 1957, Mal Waldron’s Mal/2 album features... 

Originally released in 1962, jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef... 

Although he was never inactive, the 1980s found Tito Puente in a bit of a renaissance. His... 

• Released as part of the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series
• Featuring... 

• Released as part of the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series
• Featuring... 

• Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of iconic jazz trumpet player... 

• Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of Phineas Newborn Jr's 1962 Contemporary Record debut... 

Undeniably one of the best small... 

Universally regarded as one of the... 

Go West! The Contemporary Records Albums combines legendary Jazz... 

Released to celebrate tenor... 

Legendary composer & producer David Axelrod’s solo album Heavy Axe is a jazz-rock opus that... 

In between being one of the most recorded studio drummers of all time (the “Purdie Shuffle” graced... 

Previously thought to be lost to time: this album contains remasters from the original session reels for It’s... 

With such iconic tracks as “Christmas Time is Here” and “Linus and Lucy,” the Vince Guaraldi... 

This deluxe 2-LP set of A Charlie Brown Christmas features a brand-new Stereo Mix of the classic album remastered... 

This recording is the King of Latin Soul’s 1967 debut album featuring his classic swinging and... 

Coltrane’s breakout year, when his mature sound first grabbed ears... 

Released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series celebrating 70 years of Contemporary Records, Saxophonist Art Pepper’s... 

Released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series celebrating 70 years of Contemporary Records, Saxophonist Benny Carter’s Jazz Giant album... 

Released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series celebrating 70 years of Contemporary Records, The Poll Winners brings together the... 

Today! is Skip James’ second album, originally released in 1966. The album features... 

Burning Hell was recorded in 1959 in Detroit, MI, but wasn’t released... 

The Healer is a critically acclaimed album from “King of the Boogie” John Lee Hooker. First released in 1989, the collection features... 

Chicago/The Blues/Today! Vol. 1 is the first installment of Vanguard Records’ definitive...