Muddy Waters · 1971 Spin it Again - Every band that ever plugged in an electric guitar owes this record a debt they'll never fully settle.

Muddy Waters · 1958 Spin it Again - The Rolling Stones took their name from track one. Everything else cascaded from there.

Thelonious Monk · 1957 Spin it Again - The man who invented jazz piano silence put Coleman Hawkins and a twenty-nine-year-old Coltrane in the same room for one afternoon and hit record.

Glenn Gould · 1956 Spin it Again - He brought his own chair, sat lower than anyone else would, and played Bach like he'd already argued it out in his head on the drive over.

John Coltrane · 1958 Spin it Again - Recorded eleven months before Giant Steps changed everything, this is Coltrane still inside the tradition — and already pulling at the walls.

Miles Davis · 1959 Spin it Again - Miles needed out of his Prestige contract, so he cut four albums in a single afternoon — and every one of them holds up.

Miles Davis · 1958 Spin it Again - Recorded in a day to satisfy a contract, which is exactly the kind of pressure that makes jazz tell the truth.

Miles Davis · 1957 Spin it Again - Miles owed Prestige a few records, so he walked into Rudy Van Gelder's house with Coltrane and Philly Joe and just played his show.

Oscar Peterson · 1956 Spin it Again - Ray Brown's bass lines carry more structural logic than most pianists' left hands, and Peterson plays over them like the room belongs to him.

Ella Fitzgerald · 1957 Spin it Again - Duke Ellington flew his actual orchestra to Hollywood for this, sat down at the piano, and played while Ella sang his songs back to him.

Ella Fitzgerald · 1956 Spin it Again - The record that convinced the world a pop singer could be a serious artist — and then quietly made that argument unnecessary.

Chet Baker & Bill Evans · 1959 Spin it Again - The year Evans finished Kind of Blue and Baker was still beautiful — this is what happened when no one told them to try.

Chet Baker · 1954 Spin it Again - A twenty-four-year-old kid from Oklahoma sang like he was already finished with everything, and somehow that was exactly right.

Dave Brubeck Quartet · 1959 Spin it Again - Dave Brubeck put jazz in 5/4 time in 1959 and somehow the squares bought it, which tells you something about the song and something about the squares.

Sonny Rollins · 1956 Spin it Again - Rollins in '56, blowing past every rule the bebop guys wrote, making the tenor sound like it was thinking out loud and didn't particularly care if you were following along.

Ornette Coleman · 1959 Spin it Again - Coleman walked in with a plastic saxophone and quietly ended an argument that had been going on since bebop started.

Bill Evans Trio · 1959 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motley treating silence like a fourth instrument, and nobody's been the same about piano trios since.

John Coltrane · 1957 Spin it Again - John Coltrane led exactly one Blue Note session, and he spent it playing like a man settling a debt nobody else knew existed.

Milt Jackson · 1957 Spin it Again - Milt Jackson's vibes hitting that pocket where bebop gets tired enough to mean something, and Miles just sitting there like he already knew.

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers · 1958 Spin it Again - Art Blakey hits the kit like he's settling a debt, and somehow Bobby Timmons' gospel-drenched piano makes that feel like the only reasonable response.