New For Now is a sixteen-bar original composition by guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg. It first appeared as the title track of his 2005 album New For Now, released on the Criss Cross Jazz label, where it was performed by a trio featuring Kreisberg on electric guitar, Gary Versace on organ, and Mark Ferber on drums. The tune is one of four Kreisberg originals on an album that also includes jazz standards, reflecting his approach of balancing personal compositional voice with engagement in the jazz tradition. Kreisberg, who studied at the University of Miami before establishing himself on the New York jazz scene, is known for a style that blends lyrical melodicism with forward-thinking harmonic and linear ideas, drawing comparisons to contemporaries like Kurt Rosenwinkel and Adam Rogers. New For Now fits squarely within that aesthetic, offering a compact sixteen-bar form that provides an open framework for improvisation in a straight-ahead jazz context. The tune's title later lent its name to Kreisberg's own record label, New For Now Music, which he founded for subsequent releases. The composition has not been widely adopted by other artists and remains primarily associated with Kreisberg's own recordings and performances.
