Ella Fitzgerald · 1956 Spin it Again - She recorded 32 Porter songs in three weeks. No one has done it better.

Louis Armstrong · 1957 Spin it Again - At 57, the greatest jazz musician alive sat down with a 32-year-old piano powerhouse and made something that sounds like a late-night conversation between friends who don't need to show off.

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong · 1959 Spin it Again - Ella and Louis turned Gershwin's opera into a jazz conversation that still sounds like a late night in 1957.

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong · 1957 Spin it Again - Norman Granz knew lightning could strike twice and booked the same studio.

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong · 1956 Spin it Again - Norman Granz booked one afternoon and got one of the most relaxed, revealing vocal albums ever made.

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.

Abbey Lincoln · 1989 Spin it Again - A 1989 record from Abbey Lincoln that rewards close listening.

Diana Krall · 2006 Spin it Again - Cole Porter and Gershwin sound like they were written for someone with her particular refusal to overdrive the melody.

Diana Krall · 2001

The Velvet Underground · 1967 Spin it Again - It sold nothing in 1967 and quietly rewired everything that came after it.

Nico · 1967 Spin it Again - Nico was handed other people's songs, an arranger she resented, and somehow made the most quietly devastating record of 1967.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.