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.

Pauline Oliveros · 1989 Spin it Again - A 1989 record from Pauline Oliveros that rewards close listening.

Pauline Oliveros · 1989 Spin it Again - A single retuned accordion, a room, and instructions on how to actually listen—Pauline Oliveros's radical meditation on presence.

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.

Susana Baca · 2002 Spin it Again - She spent decades in the Peruvian highlands collecting songs and stories; this album is what happens when those become personal.

Susana Baca · 2011 Spin it Again - Susana Baca and a piano, recording the songs that survived the countries that tried to silence them.

Brian Eno · Spin it Again - A timeless record from Brian Eno that rewards close listening.

Jon Hassell · 1978 Spin it Again - A 1978 record from Jon Hassell 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.