Etta James · 2003 Spin it Again - Etta James at sixty-five, live orchestra, Capitol Studios — the woman had been singing 'At Last' for forty years and somehow found more to say.

Madeleine Peyroux · 2009 Spin it Again - Marc Ribot plays guitar on your late-night jazz record and somehow still doesn't steal it.

Herbie Hancock · 2007 Spin it Again - The man who produced it was married to Joni Mitchell for eight years — that alone should tell you this is not a tribute album.

Patricia Barber · 1994 Spin it Again - Two microphones, a working bar in Chicago, and one of the most unsettling piano voices in American music.

Norah Jones · 2002 - Spin it Again - Don't forget to spin her newer stuff too. This is one artist that gets better with age.

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.

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.

Chet Baker · 1954 Spin it Again - A twenty-four-year-old kid from Oklahoma sang like he was already finished with everything, and somehow that was exactly right.

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.

Rickie Lee Jones · 1979 Spin it Again - She showed up in 1979 with a beat-up beret and a voice that sounded like it had already been through something, and nobody from that year sounds quite like her.

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.

Keith Jarrett · 1983 Spin it Again - Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette found the exact tempo at which late-night piano trio jazz stops trying to prove anything.

Bill Evans Trio · 1959 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motley treating silence like a fourth instrument, and nobody's been the same about piano trios since.

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.

Bill Evans Trio · 1965 Spin it Again - Bill Evans at the Club Saint-Germain, 1965, and the piano sounds like something you overhear through a half-open door at 2am and decide not to interrupt.