Éliane Elias · 2008 Spin it Again - She sounds like she's sitting six feet away, the piano a whisper, the strings a memory of ocean air. A pianist who never lets her hands forget she's a singer, too.

Éliane Elias · 2014 Spin it Again - She recorded the rhythm section live in New York and the strings in Prague — then somehow made the whole thing sound like one room.

Dado Villa-Lobos · 1972 Spin it Again - Dado Villa-Lobos inherited the weight of genius and chose not to run from it — instead he made an album that proves sophistication doesn't require your father's name.

Gilberto Gil · 1969 Spin it Again - Brazil's most important folk-pop album was made by a man still figuring out what he believed.

Jobim & Desafinado · 1985 Spin it Again - By 1985 Jobim had given enough immortal melodies to fill three lifetimes, so he spent this session proving how much a song needs to be taken away before it becomes perfect.

Elis Regina & Tom Jobim · 1974 Spin it Again - A 1974 record from Elis Regina & Tom Jobim that rewards close listening.

João Gilberto · 1971 Spin it Again - A 1971 record from João Gilberto that rewards close listening.

João Gilberto · 1977 Spin it Again - After inventing bossa nova, Gilberto spent most of the seventies trying not to repeat himself; Amoroso is what happened when he stopped trying and just sang.

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.