Explore Craft Recordings’ Record Store Day 2025 preview featuring exclusive releases from Carla Thomas, Thelonious Monk with Gerry Mulligan, and the Jazz Dispensary Night Lights Moodsville Collection.

It’ll be like Christmas morning for music lovers with Record Store Day 2025. Now in its 18th year, this is very early for the ...

He recorded less than half of his 170 compositions on three classic trio albums for Blue Note and one for Bethlehem before dying of leukemia at the age of 43 in 1963. He is often compared to ...

Great-sounding vinyl pressings and personal stories about how a song or an album had a huge impact on their lives ...

The latest releases include Joe Pass’ Virtuoso , Wes Montgomery’s The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery , Thelonious Monk’s Thelonious Himself and Miles Davis’ The Musings of Miles and Walkin’ ...

There’s a whole lot of false consciousness running around. How to battle against it?  It’s a matter of public health.  It’s ...

Another stone resurrection from the Swiss-based ezz-thetics label, Celebrating 75 Years Of His First Recordings Revisited collects 23 of the tracks Thelonious Monk recorded for Blue Note between 1947 ...

We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black ...

Grachan Moncur III’s second Blue Note album ‘Some Other Stuff’ confirmed him as one of post-bop jazz’s most exciting new ...

“Reefer Madness” (1936) – This “cautionary” tale is a fictionalized take on marijuana use, as a trio of drug dealers lead ...

Montgomery’s fluid lines and innovative use of octaves are on full display. This compilation of Thelonious Monk’s early Blue Note recordings introduced many of his classic compositions. Monk’s unique ...

A young girl named Bea (Cailey Fleming) doesn’t initially know what to think when she encounters IFs like Blue (Steve Carell ... Jeffrey Wright as Dr. Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a college ...