Remember record stores? Remember the thrill of turning your friends on to new music by swapping vinyl and CDs? Yeah, we do too. That’s why we’re rebooting that tradition for the digital age with our “Crate Digging” video series, in which we’ll search through crates of our memories to bring you a handful of album recommendations on a given theme. It’s social media in the truest sense of the term: no algorithms, no computer-generated playlist. Just jazz fans sharing records with other jazz fans.

For this episode of Crate Digging, we have chosen some of our favorite albums testifying to the link between jazz and sports!

Ralph Sutton Quartet, Jazz at the Olympics (Omega, 1961)

Bob James, Touchdown (Tappan Zee, 1978)

Oscar Feldman, Gol (ZOHO, 2017)

André Previn & Russ Freeman, Double Play! (Contemporary, 1957)

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Whipped Cream & Other Delights (A&M, 1965)

Marcus Shelby Orchestra, Transitions (MSO, 2019)

Jamiroquai, Travelling Without Moving (Sony/Columbia/Work, 1996)

The Great Jazz Trio, Someday My Prince Will Come (Eighty-Eights, 2004)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Golden Boy (Colpix, 1963)

Eddie Palmieri, Eddie Palmieri Is Doin' It in the Park (G.R.G., 2013)