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May 16
Composition
Vicki Brown · 1992 Spin it Again - A 1992 soul record so precisely composed and beautifully produced that you wonder how it disappeared almost entirely from conversation.
decade:1990s
May 7
Never Too Late
Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - Anita Baker made this after escaping a bad label deal, and you can hear the relief in every unhurried note.
genre:Jazz
May 7
Frank
Amy Winehouse · 2003 Spin it Again - Before the tabloids, before the beehive became a costume, there was this — a teenager from Southgate cutting a hip-hop jazz record that most forty-year-olds couldn't have pulled off.
genre:Soul
May 6
Rapture
Anita Baker · 1986 Spin it Again - Nathan East on bass, Ricky Lawson on drums, and a singer who never once oversells it — this is what sophisticated looked like before that word got ruined.
genre:Soul
Apr 25
Careless
Matthew Tavares · 2006 Spin it Again - Solo piano, 2006, Toronto, made before BADBADNOTGOOD existed — this is what it sounds like when someone plays like nobody's watching because nobody was.
genre:Soul
Apr 20
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Pentangle · 1968 Spin it Again - Bert Jansch and John Renbourn sharing a guitar track is reason enough, but then Terry Cox barely touches the kit and somehow that's the thing that gets you.
genre:Jazz
Apr 20
Monk's Music
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.
genre:Jazz
Apr 18
A New Kind of Light: Songs of Christmas
Meaghan Smith · 2011 Spin it Again - You already own this one — the question is whether you've ever actually listened to it.
decade:2010s
Apr 17
Slowbrew (Music for a Café Culture)
Taste Of Joy · 1980s Spin it Again - A library record from the Selected Sound archive that your shelves have been hiding from you.
genre:Electronic
Apr 17
Steamin'
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.
genre:Jazz
Apr 17
Relaxin'
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.
genre:Jazz
Apr 17
Cookin'
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.
genre:Jazz
Apr 16
At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
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.
genre:Hard Bop
Apr 16
Night Train
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.
genre:Hard Bop
Apr 16
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald · 1957 Spin it Again - Duke Ellington flew his actual orchestra to Hollywood for this, sat down at the piano, and played while Ella sang his songs back to him.
decade:1950s
Apr 16
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald · 1956 Spin it Again - The record that convinced the world a pop singer could be a serious artist — and then quietly made that argument unnecessary.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 15
风月
Chet Baker & Bill Evans · 1959 Spin it Again - The year Evans finished Kind of Blue and Baker was still beautiful — this is what happened when no one told them to try.
decade:1950s
Apr 15
Café Blue
Patricia Barber · 1994 Spin it Again - Recorded in a mob bar on Monday nights by a pianist who never left Chicago and never needed to.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 14
Belonging
Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek · 1974 Spin it Again - Manfred Eicher put four people in a room in Oslo and trusted the silence as much as the notes.
genre:Spiritual
Apr 14
Facing You
Keith Jarrett · 1972 Spin it Again - Before the Köln Concert made him famous, Jarrett sat alone in a German studio and invented the whole template in one morning.
genre:Piano
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