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The extensive, long planned and then delayed Contemporary Records-Acoustic Sounds series finally drops beginning May 13th with six key titles mastered AAA by Bernie Grundman, pressed at QRP on 180g vinyl and presented in Stoughton Old Style Tip On jackets. The series is a continuation of Craft Records' 70th Anniversary Contemporary Records Celebration.

The six titles are: Art Pepper+11, The Poll Winners, Four!, Benny Carter Jazz Giant, My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne & His Friends) and Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section.

Release dates are: May 13, 2022 Art Pepper+11, June 10 The Poll Winners, July 15 Four!, August 12, Jazz Giant, September 9 My Fair Lady, November 11, Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section.

This series was supposed to kick off in 2015 so I went to Bernie Grundman Mastering to watch him cut Sonny Rollins' Way Out West (which will eventually be issued in this series) and here's the video of that: