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| Craft Recordings | |
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| Parent company | Concord |
| Founded | April 24, 2017 (2017-04-24) |
| Status | Reissue label |
| Distributor | Universal Music Group |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Los Angeles,California |
| Official website | craftrecordings |
Craft Recordings is a record label owned byConcord. LikeUMe,Legacy Recordings, andRhino Entertainment, Craft specializes in reissues of Concord's back catalog. The imprint was founded in 2017, along with an online store by the same name offering a curated selection of deluxe CD and vinyl boxed sets, stand-alone LPs, and legacy label and artist merchandise.[1] Its first release was a deluxe vinyl edition ofThelonious Monk andJohn Coltrane’s Complete 1957 Recordings.[2] Sig Sigworth is the president of Craft Recordings.
Craft is home to numerous legacy labels includingContemporary,Fania,Fantasy,HighTone,Independiente,Milestone,Musart,Notro,Pablo,Panart Records,Prestige Records,Riverside,SLG,Specialty Records,Stax,Sugar Hill,Takoma,Telarc,Vanguard,Vee Jay,Victory andWind-Up.[3] Craft is also the releasing arm for catalog titles from Concord's frontline labels, includingConcord Records,Fearless Records andRounder Records.
Craft has reissued albums byCreedence Clearwater Revival,Vince Guaraldi,John Lee Hooker,Little Richard,John Coltrane,R.E.M.,Evanescence,The Offspring,Nine Inch Nails, and others. It has not only reissued material from catalog Concord artists, but also released rare material from them.[citation needed]
On June 26, 2019, Craft digitally reissued many albums of the legendaryStax soul label. Craft has also reissued, on vinyl, Stax's two-LP compilation from 1969,Soul Explosion, which compiled the label's biggest hits of that time onto the first disc, coupled with rare, hard-to-find tracks on the second.[4] In August 2019, the Craft Latino imprint announced that it would re-release severalFania Records albums byCelia Cruz,Tito Puente,Johnny Pacheco, andWillie Colón.[5]
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