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May 28
Night and the City
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.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
May 26
The African Pigeon
Jackie McLean · 1964 Spin it Again - McLean in 1964 proves that hard bop didn't end when the modal thing started.
decade:1960s
May 26
Blue Note 1500
Ornette Coleman · 1960 Spin it Again - Ornette Coleman walked into Rudy Van Gelder's studio in 1959 and proved jazz didn't need harmony to make sense.
genre:Hard Bop
May 26
Let Freedom Ring
Jackie McLean · 1962 Spin it Again - McLean's alto doesn't sit in tune so much as haunt the spaces around it—a fingerprint so distinctive that even at 21, Herbie Hancock sounds like he's accompanying a conversation happening in a language only they understood.
decade:1960s
May 25
Ethiopian Knights
Donald Byrd · 1972 Spin it Again - Byrd brings Ethiopian modal scales and patient grooves to Van Gelder's studio with a band that sounds like it actually plays together.
genre:Hard Bop
Apr 20
Point of Departure
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.
genre:Modal Jazz
Apr 17
Song for My Father
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.
decade:1960s
Apr 13
Soul Station
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.
decade:1960s
Apr 11
Come Away with Me
Norah Jones · 2002 - Spin it Again - Don't forget to spin her newer stuff too. This is one artist that gets better with age.
genre:Singer-Songwriter
Apr 5
Blue Train
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.
genre:Jazz
Apr 5
Moanin'
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.
decade:1950s
Apr 4
Juju
Wayne Shorter · 1964 Spin it Again - Wayne Shorter with Miles Davis's rhythm section, no Miles, just four nights of recording until they got it right, and you can hear exactly what that kind of quiet pressure does to a tenor player.
genre:Jazz
Apr 4
Mosaic
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers · 1961 Spin it Again - Art Blakey hits the kit like he's settling an old argument, and Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter spend six tracks proving him right.
genre:Jazz
Apr 4
Midnight Special
Jimmy Smith · 1960 Spin it Again - Jimmy Smith found that groove where a Hammond B-3 stops sounding like church and starts sounding like the back of a cab at 2am, and he just lived there for forty minutes.
genre:Soul Jazz
Apr 4
The Sidewinder
Lee Morgan · 1964 Spin it Again - Lee Morgan walked into Van Gelder's studio with a blues shuffle and a hard bop trumpet and left behind forty minutes that still sound better at midnight than most things sound at any hour.
genre:Soul Jazz
Mar 31
Out to Lunch!
Eric Dolphy · 1964 Spin it Again - Eric Dolphy had about eight months left to live when he recorded this, and somehow the flute already knew it.
genre:Free Jazz