There is a moment at the end of a good recording when nobody seems ready to move. The last chord has gone, but the room is still in the music. You can hear a chair settle, a cymbal continue to shimmer, or an audience decide when applause should begin.
That small interval is easy to edit away. Leaving it in changes how we hear everything before it. The performance becomes a shared event rather than a polished object. We notice that the musicians were listening to one another, and that the room was listening with them.
This week, try letting a record finish before reaching for the next one. Give the final note its full space. The silence may tell you as much about the session as the solo did.