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Boss Guitar
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Besame Mucho (Skylar/Velazquez); Dearly Beloved (Kern/Mercer); Days of Wine and Roses (Mancini/Mercer); The Trick Bag (Montgomery); Canadian Sunset (Gimbel/Heywood); Fried Pies (Montgomery); The Breeze and I (Lecuona/Stillman); For Heaven's Sake (Bretton/Edwards/Meyer).
City Life
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Rock Creek Park; Thankful 'bout Yourself; City Life; All I Ask; Happy Music; Love So Fine; Flying High; Hash
and Eggs.
Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool)
By Sonny Criss
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sonny's Dream; Ballad for Samuel; The Black Apostles; The Golden Pearl; Daughter of Cochise; Sandy and Niles.
Explorations
By Bill Evans
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Israel;
Haunted Heart;
Beautiful Love" [Take 2];
Elsa;
Nardis;
How Deep Is the Ocean?;
I Wish I Knew;
Sweet and Lovely.
Looking Ahead
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Lautir; Curtsy; Geo's Tune; They All Laughed; Head Shakin'; Dianna.
Ray Barretto: Together
by C. Andrew Hovan
As of this writing, it has been more than 20 years since we lost the great conguero Ray Barretto. A native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, Barretto was among the first musicians to bring the conga drum into the standard jazz combo. His unmistakable touch can be heard throughout the early 1960s on a string ...
Wes Montgomery: Boss Guitar
by C. Andrew Hovan
By the time Wes Montgomery left us in 1968 at just 45, he had already produced a staggering body of work. To say he changed the way musicians approached the guitar forever is no overstatement. Thanks to producer Orrin Keepnews, Montgomery documented his prime years on Riverside, recording nearly a dozen albums between 1959 and 1963. ...
C. Andrew Hovan's Best Jazz Albums of 2025
by C. Andrew Hovan
On many levels, 2025 proved to be a challenging year marked by considerable strife. Fortunately, as Art Blakey once observed, “Music washes away the dust of everyday life." And yet, given the current state of affairs, the moment might be more accurately captured by a line from The Police: “When the world is falling down, you ...
Bill Evans Trio: Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (Remastered 2025)
by Mark Corroto
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile, a barrier many believed human beings could never break. Today, any elite miler can run that time, which makes Bannister's accomplishment harder for modern sports fans to fully appreciate. Something similar happens when listening to pianist Bill Evans' two Riverside studio sessions, Portrait in Jazz ...
Songs for Nica: How Jazz Fell in Love with a Baroness
by Hank Hehmsoth
For decades, the name Nica has surfaced quietly but persistently in jazz titles and liner notes. Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter--the Rothschild-born patron and confidant of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and dozens of others--left a mark far deeper than her reputation as jazz's “Baroness." Her name became part of the music itself, traveling across generations ...
