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Mar 23
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
100
critic score
(5)
70
user score
(655)
Jul
The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop
Pithecanthropus Erectus
100
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(244)
Mar 5
Frank Sinatra
Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
98
critic score
(4)
78
user score
(201)
Oct 1
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Ella and Louis
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(177)
Oct 19
Elvis Presley
Elvis
100
critic score
(3)
72
user score
(134)
Nov 1
Louis Prima
The Wildest!
100
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(131)
Jul 7
Duke Ellington
Ellington at Newport
100
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(106)
Oct
The Louvin Brothers
Tragic Songs of Life
100
critic score
(1)
60
user score
(100)
Mar 1
Glenn Gould
Bach: The Goldberg Variations
97
critic score
(3)
76
user score
(94)
Dec 1
Fats Domino
This Is Fats
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(94)
Dec
Billie Holiday
Lady Sings the Blues
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(91)
Jan 1
Harry Belafonte
Calypso
100
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(56)
Apr
Miles Davis
Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet
70
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(45)
Jan 1
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
90
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(44)
Jul
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Gospel Train
70
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(44)
1956
Moondog
Moondog
85
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(40)
Jun
The Quintet
Jazz at Massey Hall
100
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(40)
Dec
Miles Davis
Collectors' Items
90
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(40)
Aug
Miles Davis & Milt Jackson
Quintet/Sextet
70
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(39)
1956
Billie Holiday
Solitude
60
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(36)
Jan
Miles Davis
Dig
70
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(36)
1956
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(34)
1956
B.B. King
Singin' The Blues
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(34)
1956
Ravi Shankar
Music of India (Three Classical Rāgas)
100
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(33)
Oct
Miles Davis
Blue Haze
60
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(30)
1956
Michio Miyagi
宮城道雄名曲選集 (Masterpieces of Koto)
82
user score
(27)
1956
Odetta
Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
90
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(25)
1956
Chet Baker
Chet Baker Sings
90
critic score
(1)
87
user score
(25)
Jan 1
Sonny Rollins
Tenor Madness
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(25)
Apr
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner
Concerto for Orchestra
73
user score
(23)
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1956
Miles Davis
Miles Davis and Horns
60
critic score
(1)
63
user score
(21)
1956
Moondog
More Moondog
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(20)
Jan 27
Elvis Presley
Heartbreak Hotel
84
user score
(20)
Jul 12
Sun Ra & His Arkestra
Super-sonic Jazz
60
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(20)
Jan 1
Sonny Rollins
Plus 4
87
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(18)
Sep 14
Cecil Taylor
Jazz Advance
90
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(18)
1956
Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n Roll Trio
Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio
74
user score
(16)
1956
Thelonious Monk
The Unique Thelonious Monk
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(15)
Jan
Miles Davis
Miles Davis, Vol. 1
63
user score
(15)
Sep 28
Elvis Presley
Love Me Tender
84
user score
(15)
1956
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Fontessa
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(14)
1956
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book
100
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(14)
Jan 1
Clifford Brown & Max Roach
At Basin Street
90
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(14)
1956
The Platters
The Platters
69
user score
(13)
1956
Maysa
Convite para Ouvir Maysa
90
user score
(12)
Jan 1
George Sawaya Trio
Arabic Songs of Lebanon and Egypt
59
user score
(12)
Apr
Charles Mingus, Wally Cirillo, Teo Macero & John LaPorta
Jazz Composers Workshop
50
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(12)
Jul 13
Elvis Presley
Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog
88
user score
(12)
1956
Miles Davis
Miles Davis Vol. 2
64
user score
(11)
Jan 1
Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinícius De Moraes, Roberto Paiva
Orfeu Da Conceição
74
user score
(11)
1956
Julie London
Lonely Girl
80
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(10)
Jan 1
Pete Seeger
American Industrial Ballads
74
user score
(10)
Jan 2
Lennie Tristano
Lennie Tristano
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(10)
Dec
Harry Belafonte
Banana Boat (Day-O) / Star-O
96
user score
(10)
Jan 1
Ahmad Jamal
Chamber Music of the New Jazz
90
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(9)
Jan 1
Sonny Rollins
Work Time
70
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(9)
May 1
Johnny Cash
I Walk the Line
93
user score
(9)
Aug
Charles Mingus
Mingus at the Bohemia
90
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(9)
Dec 3
Sonny Rollins
With The Modern Jazz Quartet
80
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(9)
1956
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
60
critic score
(1)
66
user score
(8)
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