Bill Laurance · 2019 Spin it Again - The Snarky Puppy keyboard player walks out alone at Montreux and turns out to have been the interesting one all along.

Weather Report · 1980 Spin it Again - Zawinul slowed everything down, Shorter finally had room to breathe, and for once Weather Report sounded like they were playing for the end of the night instead of the beginning.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the Headhunters' funk and ran it through a synthesizer until it stopped being jazz, stopped being soul, and became something that only made sense at two in the morning in 1974.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Herbie in '74, still one foot in jazz and one foot somewhere murkier, and you can hear him deciding which direction to walk.

Weather Report · 1977 Spin it Again - Jaco Pastorius walked into a jazz-fusion session in 1977 and made the bass the whole conversation, and nobody's really argued with him since.

Steely Dan · 1980 Spin it Again - Becker and Fagen spent so much money and time making LA sound this cold and frictionless that it almost killed the band, and you can hear every dollar of it.

Donald Fagen · 1982 Spin it Again - Fagen spent six years out of Steely Dan's shadow to make something quieter and colder and more his, and it turns out that's exactly what he had to say.

Herbie Hancock · 1974 Spin it Again - Hancock took the electric funk he was building on Head Hunters and tightened every screw until there was almost no room left to breathe, which is exactly the point.

Weather Report · 1975 Spin it Again - Zawinul spent 1975 making jazz feel like it had somewhere to be, and for once it did.

Miles Davis · 1970 Spin it Again - Miles Davis walked into the studio in 1970 with electric guitars and a couple of drummers and just refused to explain himself.

Miles Davis · 1969 Spin it Again - Miles Davis turned the volume down so low in 1969 that you had to lean in, and once you did, you couldn't hear anything else the same way again.