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1956 Album Releases
1955
1957
1956
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Live
(7)
LP
(67)
Genre
Blues
(2)
Jazz
(6)
Rock & Roll
(3)
Standards
(3)
Traditional Pop
(1)
Vocal Jazz
(4)
Mar 23
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
100
critic score
(3)
81
user score
(71)
Jan 1
Charles Mingus
Pithecanthropus Erectus
100
critic score
(1)
88
user score
(32)
Mar 1
Frank Sinatra
Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
97
critic score
(3)
82
user score
(29)
Dec 1
Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus
100
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(27)
Nov 1
Louis Prima
The Wildest!
100
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(17)
Oct 1
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Ella and Louis
90
critic score
(1)
89
user score
(15)
1956
Glenn Gould
Bach: The Goldberg Variations
97
critic score
(3)
88
user score
(14)
Jul 7
Duke Ellington
Ellington at Newport
100
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(13)
Oct 19
Elvis Presley
Elvis
100
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(13)
Dec 1
Fats Domino
This Is Fats
90
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(13)
1956
The Louvin Brothers
Tragic Songs of Life
100
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(12)
1956
Moondog
Moondog
90
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(8)
Jan 1
Miles Davis
Collectors' Items
90
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(8)
1956
Miles Davis
Quintet/Sextet
73
user score
(7)
Apr 1
Miles Davis
Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet
70
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(7)
1956
Peggy Lee
Black Coffee
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(6)
1956
Odetta
Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
90
critic score
(1)
85
user score
(6)
Jan 1
Billie Holiday
Lady Sings the Blues
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(6)
Jan 1
Harry Belafonte
Calypso
100
critic score
(1)
88
user score
(6)
Jan 1
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
90
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(5)
Mar 1
Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs
90
critic score
(1)
85
user score
(5)
1956
Moondog
More Moondog
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(4)
Jan 1
Ravi Shankar
Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas)
100
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(4)
1956
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers
78
user score
(3)
1956
Phineas Newborn Jr.
Phineas' Rainbow
80
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(3)
1956
Thelonious Monk
The Unique Thelonious Monk
90
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(3)
1956
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book
100
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(3)
Apr
Charles Mingus
Jazz Composers Workshop
72
user score
(3)
Jul
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Gospel Train
70
critic score
(2)
65
user score
(3)
Jul 12
Sun Ra & His Arkestra
Super-sonic Jazz
65
user score
(3)
1956
Tommy Makem & The Clancy Brothers
The Rising of the Moon: Irish Songs of Rebellion
84
user score
(2)
1956
The Platters
The Platters
68
user score
(2)
1956
Julie London
Calendar Girl
80
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(2)
1956
Ella Fitzgerald
Lullabies of Birdland
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(2)
1956
Barney Kessel
Kessel Plays Standards
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(2)
1956
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Fontessa
72
user score
(2)
1956
Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n Roll Trio
Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio
82
user score
(2)
Jan
Boris Vian
Chansons "possibles" et "impossibles"
85
user score
(2)
Jan 1
Sonny Rollins
Tenor Madness
73
user score
(2)
Jan 1
Louis Armstrong
Ambassador Satch
68
user score
(2)
Jan 1
George Sawaya Trio
Arabic Songs of Lebanon and Egypt
82
user score
(2)
Feb 1
Elmer Bernstein
The Man With the Golden Arm
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(2)
Mar 1
Georges Brassens
Je me suis fait tout petit
80
user score
(2)
Jun 6
Milt Jackson
Ballads & Blues
75
user score
(2)
Nov 21
Elvis Presley
Love Me Tender
66
user score
(2)
1956
LaVern Baker
La Vern
80
user score
(1)
1956
Jerry Rudolph
Flying Saucer of Latest Top Tunes
40
user score
(1)
1956
Julie London
Lonely Girl
80
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(1)
1956
Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich
Krupa and Rich
90
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(1)
1956
Lester Young
The Jazz Giants '56
100
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(1)
1956
Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel
75
user score
(1)
1956
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
60
user score
(1)
Jan 1
The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2
71
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Erroll Garner
Concert by the Sea
66
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Bud Powell
Jazz Giant
67
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Serge Chaloff
Blue Serge
66
user score
(1)
Jan 1
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Jazz at Oberlin
78
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Phineas Newborn Jr.
Here Is Phineas
77
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Bud Powell
The Genius of Bud Powell
70
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Chris Connor
Chris Connor
51
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Milt Jackson
Opus de Jazz
60
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Jimmy Giuffre
The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet
79
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Sonny Rollins
Work Time
78
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Oscar Peterson Trio
at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
79
user score
(1)
Jan 1
The Modern Jazz Sextet
The Modern Jazz Sextet
77
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Pete Seeger
American Industrial Ballads
70
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Stan Kenton
Cuban Fire!
60
user score
(1)
Jan 1
The Curtis Counce Group
Landslide, Vol. 1
79
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Clifford Brown
Jazz Immortal
50
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Miles Davis
Miles Davis and Horns
60
critic score
(1)
64
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Miles Davis
Blue Haze
60
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Les Baxter
Tamboo!
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Ahmad Jamal
Chamber Music of the New Jazz
90
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Sonny Rollins
Plus 4
100
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Count Basie & Joe Williams
Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
100
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Clifford Brown & Max Roach
At Basin Street
74
user score
(1)
Jan 1
The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1
81
user score
(1)
Jan 1
The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers
77
user score
(1)
Jan 2
Lennie Tristano
Lennie Tristano
77
user score
(1)
Mar 1
Johnny Hartman
Songs From the Heart
90
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(1)
May 1
Hampton Hawes Trio
This Is Hampton Hawes, Vol. 2: The Trio
61
user score
(1)
Jun 1
Jackie McLean Quintet
Lights Out!
71
user score
(1)
Jun 6
Rosemary Clooney
Blue Rose
75
user score
(1)
Jun 15
Stan Kenton
Kenton in Hi-Fi
76
user score
(1)
Jun 23
The Jacks
Jumpin' With The Jacks
69
user score
(1)
Jul 22
Fats Domino
Fats Domino Rock And Rollin'
65
user score
(1)
Jul 30
June Christy
The Misty Miss Christy
65
user score
(1)
Aug 7
Tommy Makem & The Clancy Brothers
The Rising of the Moon
67
user score
(1)
Sep 1
Johnny Smith
Moonlight in Vermont
86
user score
(1)
Sep 1
Kenny Burrell
Introducing Kenny Burrell
80
critic score
(1)
64
user score
(1)
Sep 13
Big Joe Turner
The Boss Of The Blues Sings Kansas City Jazz
55
user score
(1)
Sep 14
Cecil Taylor
Jazz Advance
90
critic score
(1)
90
user score
(1)
Oct
Elvis Presley
The Real Elvis
85
user score
(1)
Nov 1
Jackie McLean
4, 5 and 6
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(1)
Dec
Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan Showcase
50
user score
(1)
Dec 1
The Weavers
The Weavers at Carnegie Hall
73
user score
(1)
Dec 1
Paul Chambers Sextet
Whims of Chambers
57
user score
(1)
1956
Bing Crosby
Blue Hawaii
1956
Miyoshi Umeki
Miyoshi Sings for Arthur Godfrey
1956
Kay Starr
Songs by Kay Starr
40
critic score
(1)
1956
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
60
critic score
(1)
1956
Sarah Vaughan
Sassy
60
critic score
(1)
