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producer:Irving Townsend
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May 24
Sketches of Spain
Miles Davis · 1960 Spin it Again - A 1960 record from Miles Davis that rewards close listening.
genre:Classical
Apr 17
Cookin' at the Plugged Nickel
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.
genre:Hard Bop
Apr 17
Workin'
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.
genre:Modal Jazz
Apr 16
At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
Oscar Peterson · 1956 Spin it Again - Ray Brown's bass lines carry more structural logic than most pianists' left hands, and Peterson plays over them like the room belongs to him.
genre:Hard Bop
Apr 5
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis · 1959 Spin it Again - Miles Davis got five musicians in a room with almost no rehearsal and they all played like they were thinking out loud, which is harder than it sounds.
genre:Hard Bop