Pharoah Sanders · 1973 Spin it Again - A soprano saxophone and four musicians who understand that the point of free jazz is not freedom from structure but freedom to mean something.

Pharoah Sanders · 1969 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders and Leon Thomas made an album in 1969 that asks you to stop listening and start believing.

Ornette Coleman · 1960 Spin it Again - Ornette Coleman walked into Rudy Van Gelder's studio in 1959 and proved jazz didn't need harmony to make sense.

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

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.

Pharoah Sanders · 1974 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders in '74, still chasing that frequency Coltrane pointed at, and some nights he actually touches it.

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

Pharoah Sanders · 1974 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders in 1974, still chasing something cosmic but letting the silence do more of the work this time.

Sun Ra · 1973 Spin it Again - Sun Ra decided the cosmos needed a bandleader and nobody in 1973 had a convincing argument against it.

Eric Dolphy · 1964 Spin it Again - Eric Dolphy had about eight months left to live when he recorded this, and somehow the flute already knew it.