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 · 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.

Ben Sidran · 1990 Spin it Again - Sidran recorded this with nothing but a piano, his voice, and the discipline not to add anything that wasn't absolutely necessary.

Bill Evans Trio · 1961 Spin it Again - A 1961 record from Bill Evans Trio that rewards close listening.

Tom Waits · 1973 Spin it Again - Tom Waits at a piano in 1973, sounding older than his years and sadder than he had any right to be.

Kim Doolittle · Year Unknown Spin it Again - Piano in a closed room at night, no audience, no second take—just what happened when the tape was rolling.

Shirley Horn · 1981 Spin it Again - A seventy-year-old woman, a piano, and the sound of being completely paid attention to.

Tom Waits · 1975 Spin it Again - A 24-year-old singer and his voice on a single night in a Los Angeles diner, with a bass player and a drummer who'd each seen the 20th century coming.

Howlin' Wolf · 1971 Spin it Again - Sixty-one years old, kidneys failing, flown to London — and he was still the least impressed person in the room.

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 2012 Spin it Again - The My Bloody Valentine drummer and the woman from Mazzy Star made an album this quiet and this heavy, and most people still haven't found it.

Lodger · 1992 Spin it Again - A 1992 British pop record so far ahead of its moment that it took thirty years to find the audience it deserved.

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.

Cowboy Junkies · 2004 Spin it Again - Recorded in their own Hamilton studio with no outside clock running, this is what the Junkies sound like when nobody is asking them to be anything.

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions · 1999 Spin it Again - Hope Sandoval and My Bloody Valentine's drummer made a record in two countries that sounds like neither of them — and somehow that's exactly right.

Ginuwine · 1996 Spin it Again - A twenty-two-year-old from DC and an unknown Virginia Beach beatmaker made one of the most spatially strange R&B records of the decade, and somehow everyone only remembers the horse.

Miles Davis · 1966 Spin it Again - Tony Williams was nineteen years old on this bandstand, and he already sounds like he'd invented something nobody else knew was possible.

Miles Davis · 1959 Spin it Again - Miles needed out of his Prestige contract, so he cut four albums in a single afternoon — and every one of them holds up.

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.

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.