Mary Lou Williams · 1945 Spin it Again - She mapped the zodiac onto jazz piano and made modernism sound inevitable, not pretentious.

Shabaka Hutchings · 2015 Spin it Again - He plays saxophone the way you'd speak a confession—carefully, with long pauses, knowing someone is listening.

Shabaka Hutchings · 2017 Spin it Again - A 2017 record from Shabaka Hutchings that rewards close listening.

Archie Shepp · 1994 Spin it Again - At sixty-one, Shepp sat down in an Italian auditorium with Horace Tapscott on piano and played like he had everything left to prove.

Pharoah Sanders · 1994 Spin it Again - A man in his eighth decade sitting in silence, then speaking in the only language he never needed to explain.

McCoy Tyner · 1995 Spin it Again - McCoy Tyner at sixty-three proves that restraint in jazz doesn't mean stepping back—it means stepping deeper.

Bojan Z · 1986 Spin it Again - Solo piano from Ljubljana in 1986 — spare, questioning, utterly indifferent to whether you're listening.

Mal Waldron · 1982 Spin it Again - A 1982 record from Mal Waldron that rewards close listening.

Abdullah Ibrahim · 1983 Spin it Again - South African piano master comes home to his instrument after years in exile, one unbroken session that sounds like a man finally alone with what he needed to say.

Abdullah Ibrahim · 1985 Spin it Again - A 1985 record from Abdullah Ibrahim that rewards close listening.

Thebe Magkasule · 2012 Spin it Again - Solo piano built from the grammar of minimalism and the soul of South African modernism—each repeated note a key turning in a lock.

John Coltrane · 1959 Spin it Again - He recorded it in 1959 but the world didn't hear it until much later—four tracks of pure solitude with a rhythm section that knew how to shut up.

The Necks · 1999 Spin it Again - A 1999 record from The Necks that rewards close listening.

The Necks · 1997 Spin it Again - The Necks—three musicians, no composition, sixty minutes of real-time listening at the highest level.

Cassandra Wilson · 1996 Spin it Again - Craig Street produced an album of such restraint that every breath Wilson takes becomes essential—jazz that sounds less performed than confessed.

Patricia Barber · 2000 Spin it Again - A 2000 record from Patricia Barber that rewards close listening.

Patricia Barber · 1994 Spin it Again - Three nights at a Chicago bar, two microphones, and a pianist who understood that playing less is the harder choice.

Patricia Barber · 1998 Spin it Again - Patricia Barber and two musicians in a room, recorded live to tape in 1997—this is what happens when you remove everything between the player and the listener.

Negus Kassahun · 1972 Spin it Again - A 1972 record from Negus Kassahun that rewards close listening.

Mulatu Astatke · 1974 Spin it Again - Mulatu Astatke didn't borrow from Western jazz so much as recognize the vibraphone was waiting to play an entirely different language.