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.

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.

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.

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 · 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.

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.

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 · 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 · 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.

Thelonious Monk · 1957 Spin it Again - Monk wrote the title track so knotty his own band couldn't play it clean, so they spliced together two takes and called it done, and somehow that's the most honest thing on the record.