mood:Spiritual
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Apr 14
Belonging
Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek · 1974 Spin it Again - Manfred Eicher put four people in a room in Oslo and trusted the silence as much as the notes.
genre:Spiritual
Apr 14
Facing You
Keith Jarrett · 1972 Spin it Again - Before the Köln Concert made him famous, Jarrett sat alone in a German studio and invented the whole template in one morning.
genre:Piano
Apr 13
I've Got My Own Hell to Raise
Bettye LaVette · 2005 Spin it Again - Joe Henry recorded this in his house in South Pasadena and somehow made a sixty-year-old Detroit lifer sound like the only adult in the room.
genre:Blues
Apr 13
14 Songs
The Carter Family & Dolly Parton · 1998 Spin it Again - Dolly Parton walked into a room with the last living Carters and nobody added reverb.
decade:1990s
Apr 13
New Favorite
Alison Krauss & Union Station · 2001 Spin it Again - You already own this record. Tonight is the first time you're actually going to hear it.
genre:Americana
Apr 10
Bach: The Art of Fugue
Yo-Yo Ma · 2013 Spin it Again - Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach alone in 2013 and somehow makes a piece written for no instrument in particular feel like it was always meant to end like this.
decade:2010s
Apr 10
The Cello Suites: Casals, Segovia, Stern
Various Artists · 1998 Spin it Again - Three men, three centuries of technique between them, all circling the same six suites like they each found something different hidden inside the wood.
decade:1990s
Apr 10
Inspired by Bach
Yo-Yo Ma · 2006 Spin it Again - Yo-Yo Ma spent years living inside the Bach Cello Suites and then handed you the receipts.
decade:2000s
Apr 10
Six Evolutions – Bach: Cello Suites
Yo-Yo Ma · 2018 Spin it Again - Yo-Yo Ma, thirty years after the first recording, sat back down with these suites and played them like a man who finally stopped trying to impress Bach.
decade:2010s
Apr 10
Tales from Topographic Oceans
Yes · 1973 Spin it Again - Four sides of vinyl, four Hindu scriptures, and four guys who forgot that restraint is also a musical decision.
decade:1970s
Apr 5
Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio · 1961 Spin it Again - Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro, and Paul Motley playing jazz like a conversation no one wanted to end, ten days before LaFaro died.
genre:Hard Bop
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 5
Kulu Sé Mama
John Coltrane · 1965 Spin it Again - Coltrane in '65, past the point of needing your approval, just him and Pharoah Sanders letting something ancient and uncomfortable move through the room until it was done.
genre:Spiritual Jazz
Apr 5
Spiritual Exaltation
Pharoah Sanders · 1974 Spin it Again - Pharoah Sanders in '74, still chasing that frequency Coltrane pointed at, and some nights he actually touches it.
genre:Spiritual
Apr 5
Meditations
John Coltrane · 1966 Spin it Again - Coltrane brought Pharoah Sanders in and stopped worrying about whether you could follow him.
genre:Spiritual Jazz
Apr 5
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane · 1965 Spin it Again - Four movements, one theme, and Coltrane playing like a man who had already settled the argument with God and just wanted you to hear how it ended.
genre:Spiritual Jazz
Apr 4
Inanna
Harry Partch · 1952 Spin it Again - Harry Partch built his own instruments just to make sounds Western tuning wouldn't allow, and this is the record where that stubbornness finally had somewhere to go.
decade:1950s
Apr 4
The Beginning
Karlheinz Stockhausen · 1971 Spin it Again - Stockhausen in 1971, still convinced that sound itself was the argument, and honestly, after an hour of this, you start to think he was right.
genre:Experimental
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
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