Andrew Hill · 1965 Spin it Again - Recorded nine months before Eric Dolphy died, with Tony Williams at nineteen doing things to a drum kit that still don't have a name.

The Rolling Stones · 1969 Spin it Again - Released five days after Altamont, with a choir, a cracked voice, and Ry Cooder — this is the record where the Stones figured out they didn't need to be a band to sound like one.

The Rolling Stones · 1967 Spin it Again - Their manager walked out, they couldn't leave the country, and somehow John Paul Jones ended up arranging the strings.

Various Artists · 1968/1996 Spin it Again - The Stones buried this for twenty-eight years because they thought the Who outplayed them — they were probably right, and it still didn't matter.

Miles Davis · 1966 Spin it Again - Tony Williams was nineteen years old on this bandstand, and he already sounds like he'd invented something nobody else knew was possible.

Miles Davis · 1961 Spin it Again - Miles needed out of his Prestige contract, Van Gelder had the room, and Coltrane was still figuring out what he was — everything lined up exactly once.

Horace Silver · 1965 Spin it Again - Sixty years of samples and covers and it still sounds like the original is the only one that got it right.

Oscar Peterson · 1963 Spin it Again - Ray Brown's bass sits just below your sternum, and the rest of the record builds itself around that fact.

The Beach Boys · 1966 Spin it Again - This is the album where Brian Wilson heard the voices and put them to tape with the best players money could buy.

The Beatles · 1969 Spin it Again - For the band that changed everything, this was the sound of their quiet, confident end.

Hank Mobley · 1960 Spin it Again - The record Leonard Feather accidentally described when he called Mobley a middleweight — turns out that's exactly what jazz needed.

João Gilberto · 1960 Spin it Again - João Gilberto in 1960, turning a handful of American standards into something so quiet and precise it makes every other vocal performance in the room sound like it's trying too hard.

Astrud Gilberto · 1964 Spin it Again - Gilberto's voice was so small and so far back in the mix that you had to lean in, and once you did, you weren't going anywhere for a while.

Stan Getz and João Gilberto · 1964 Spin it Again - Stan Getz's tenor sitting that loose over Gilberto's guitar is the reason a lot of people spent the sixties thinking they understood something about sadness they didn't.

Astrud Gilberto · 1965 Spin it Again - Astrud Gilberto, 1965, singing like she's slightly bored with your feelings, and somehow that's the only thing that makes sense at two in the morning.

Bill Evans Trio · 1962 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motian in a New York restaurant, February 1961, and LaFaro was dead ten days later, which is the only context you need.

Ornette Coleman · 1960 Spin it Again - Two quartets, one session, zero agreement, and somehow Coleman made that the whole point.

Bill Evans Trio · 1961 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motley playing jazz like a conversation no one wanted to end, ten days before LaFaro died.

John Coltrane · 1965 Spin it Again - Coltrane in '65, past the point of needing your approval, just him and Pharoah Sanders letting something ancient and uncomfortable move through the room until it was done.

John Coltrane · 1966 Spin it Again - Coltrane brought Pharoah Sanders in and stopped worrying about whether you could follow him.