Stevie Wonder · 1973 Spin it Again - He played the clavinet like it was a typewriter and the Moog like it was a gospel choir.

Satoshi Ashikawa · 1982 Spin it Again - A piano in a room with the windows open, recorded as the air itself moved through the space — this is what ambient music sounds like when it treats silence as an instrument.

Hiroshi Yoshimura · 1986 Spin it Again - He designed sound for Japanese corporations and then made this album in his living room with no budget — and it sounds like a forest waking up.

Mahavishnu Orchestra · 1973 Spin it Again - Five men in a London studio played so hard the tape almost melted.

Jan Garbarek · 1995 Spin it Again - A record that sounds like dawn breaking over a frozen fjord, where every note has room to breathe.

Jan Garbarek · 2006 Spin it Again - Garbarek proves that restraint can be the loudest statement.

Jan Garbarek · 1998 Spin it Again - A double album that proves restraint is the most powerful instrument in the room.

Jan Garbarek · 2009 Spin it Again - He took his saxophone to the edges of the earth, brought back the wind, and asked a string quartet to hold still long enough to hear it.

Toru Takemitsu · 1977 Spin it Again - Takemitsu dreamed a garden with five sides and wrote the quietest masterpiece of the 1970s.

Kaija Saariaho · 2011 Spin it Again - This Finnish composer treats the percussionist as a watercolorist and the room as the canvas. The result is six miniatures that feel larger than any symphony.

Master Musicians of Jajouka · 1992 Spin it Again - Bill Laswell dropped a microphone in a Moroccan village and let twenty-one men do what they've done for centuries.

Diamanda Galas · 1994 Spin it Again - She didn't just sing about plague — she became its witness.

Art Ensemble of Chicago · 1980 Spin it Again - A 1980 record from Art Ensemble of Chicago that rewards close listening.

Jarboe · 1996 Spin it Again - She built an album out of silence, cello, and a voice that doesn't sing like anyone else's—the sound of someone thinking through beauty when nobody's watching.

Albert Ayler · 1963 Spin it Again - Albert Ayler's debut is a tent-revival sermon played on a soprano saxophone, recorded so close you can hear his breath breaking.

John Coltrane · 1961 Spin it Again - A 1961 record from John Coltrane that rewards close listening.

Yusuf Lateef · 1963 Spin it Again - A 1963 record from Yusuf Lateef that rewards close listening.

Charles Mingus · 1959 Spin it Again - Mingus stopped writing for anyone's approval the night he learned the bass could lead.

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

Otis Redding · Spin it Again - A timeless record from Otis Redding that rewards close listening.