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1957
1956
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Compilation
(15)
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(10)
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(11)
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(278)
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(4)
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(4)
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(21)
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(14)
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Avant-Folk
(2)
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(4)
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(3)
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(3)
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(3)
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(2)
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(4)
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(2)
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(5)
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(11)
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(2)
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(9)
Jazz
(33)
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(2)
Post-Bop
(4)
R&B
(2)
Rock & Roll
(9)
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(7)
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(2)
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(2)
Space Age Pop
(9)
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(4)
Standards
(9)
Traditional Pop
(3)
Vocal Jazz
(12)
Mar 23
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
100
critic score
(4)
74
user score
(331)
Jul
Charles Mingus
Pithecanthropus Erectus
100
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(147)
Mar 1
Frank Sinatra
Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
98
critic score
(4)
78
user score
(116)
Oct 1
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Ella and Louis
90
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(94)
Oct 19
Elvis Presley
Elvis
100
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(67)
Nov 1
Louis Prima
The Wildest!
100
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(66)
1956
Glenn Gould
Bach: The Goldberg Variations
95
critic score
(4)
82
user score
(62)
Jul 7
Duke Ellington
Ellington at Newport
100
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(53)
1956
The Louvin Brothers
Tragic Songs of Life
100
critic score
(1)
63
user score
(52)
Jan 1
Billie Holiday
Lady Sings the Blues
80
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(49)
Dec 1
Fats Domino
This Is Fats
90
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(46)
Jan 1
Harry Belafonte
Calypso
100
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(33)
Dec
Miles Davis
Collectors' Items
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(32)
Jan
Miles Davis
Dig
70
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(31)
Jan 1
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
90
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(29)
Apr 1
Miles Davis
Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet
70
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(29)
1956
Moondog
Moondog
85
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(26)
Aug
Miles Davis & Milt Jackson
Quintet/Sextet
60
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(26)
Jan 1
Miles Davis
Blue Haze
60
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(25)
Jan 1
Ravi Shankar
Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas)
100
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(21)
Jun
The Quintet
Jazz at Massey Hall
100
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(21)
1956
Odetta
Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
90
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(19)
1956
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(19)
Jul
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Gospel Train
70
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(19)
1956
B.B. King
Singin' The Blues
90
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(16)
1956
Moondog
More Moondog
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(16)
Jan 1
Miles Davis
Miles Davis and Horns
60
critic score
(1)
59
user score
(16)
1956
Michio Miyagi
宮城道雄名曲選集 (Masterpieces of Koto)
84
user score
(15)
1956
Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n Roll Trio
Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio
74
user score
(13)
1956
Ella Fitzgerald
Lullabies of Birdland
90
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(13)
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Jan 1
George Sawaya Trio
Arabic Songs of Lebanon and Egypt
63
user score
(13)
Jul 12
Sun Ra & His Arkestra
Super-sonic Jazz
69
user score
(13)
Jan 1
Sonny Rollins
Tenor Madness
90
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(11)
Apr
Charles Mingus
Jazz Composers Workshop
50
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(11)
1956
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book
100
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(10)
Jan 1
Sonny Rollins
Plus 4
100
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(10)
Jan 27
Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel
86
user score
(10)
Sep 14
Cecil Taylor
Jazz Advance
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(10)
1956
Billie Holiday
Solitude
60
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(9)
1956
Thelonious Monk
The Unique Thelonious Monk
90
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(9)
1956
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Fontessa
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(9)
1956
Miles Davis
Miles Davis Vol.2
66
user score
(9)
Apr
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
77
user score
(9)
Jan
Boris Vian
Chansons "possibles" et "impossibles"
78
user score
(8)
Jan 1
Clifford Brown & Max Roach
At Basin Street
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(7)
Sep 28
Elvis Presley
Love Me Tender
88
user score
(7)
1956
Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
Bluejean Bop!
78
user score
(6)
1956
Julie London
Calendar Girl
80
critic score
(1)
66
user score
(6)
1956
Charles Mingus
Mingus at the Bohemia
90
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(6)
Jan
The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia Volume 1
70
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(6)
Jan 1
Sonny Rollins
Work Time
70
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(6)
Sep
Johnny Smith Quintet featuring Stan Getz
Moonlight in Vermont
100
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(6)
1956
Julie London
Lonely Girl
80
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(5)
1956
The Platters
The Platters
68
user score
(5)
Jan 2
Lennie Tristano
Lennie Tristano
75
user score
(5)
Feb 1
Elmer Bernstein
The Man With the Golden Arm
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(5)
Apr
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner
Concerto for Orchestra
68
user score
(5)
Jul 13
Elvis Presley
Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog
89
user score
(5)
1956
Maysa Matarazzo
Convite para Ouvir Maysa
90
user score
(4)
1956
Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich
Krupa and Rich
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(4)
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