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” 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.

This week we bring you a list of some of our favorite Valentine’s Day albums.

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (Impulse!, 1963)

James Moody, Moody's Mood for Love (Argo, 1957)

Miles Davis, Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1959)

Patrice Rushen, Straight from the Heart (Elektra, 1982)

Marquis Hill, Love Tape (Black Unlimited, 2019)

Frank Sinatra, Songs for Young Lovers (Capitol, 1954)