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Mar 4
Miles Davis
'Round About Midnight
100
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(373)
Aug
The Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop
The Clown
100
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(311)
Apr
Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus
100
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(303)
Feb
Miles Davis
Birth of the Cool
100
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(297)
Mar 1
Little Richard
Here's Little Richard
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(293)
Apr 4
Thelonious Monk
Brilliant Corners
100
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(265)
Oct 11
Johnny Cash
With His Hot and Blue Guitar
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(182)
Nov 27
The Crickets
The "Chirping" Crickets
100
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(156)
Oct 21
Miles Davis
Miles Ahead
100
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(142)
Nov 1
Thelonious Monk
Monk's Music
94
critic score
(3)
79
user score
(127)
Jul
The Miles Davis Quintet
Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
95
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(125)
Jan 1
Ray Charles
Ray Charles
85
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(86)
May 31
John Coltrane
Coltrane
80
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(77)
Dec 24
Machito
Kenya
60
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(75)
Apr 27
Sabu
Palo Congo
90
critic score
(1)
66
user score
(72)
May 1
Chuck Berry
After School Session
90
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(67)
Oct 15
Elvis Presley
Elvis' Christmas Album
95
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(67)
Jan 1
Sonny Rollins
Way Out West
100
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(49)
Mar
Miles Davis All Stars
Walkin'
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(49)
Sep 2
Frank Sinatra
Where Are You?
100
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(48)
Jan 1
Sarah Vaughan
At Mister Kelly's
90
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(47)
Oct
Charles Mingus
East Coasting
80
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(46)
1957
Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie
90
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(45)
May 6
Frank Sinatra
A Swingin' Affair!
97
critic score
(3)
75
user score
(44)
Sep 21
Frank Sinatra
A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
60
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(41)
Jul 1
Elvis Presley
Loving You
70
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(40)
1957
Tadd Dameron & John Coltrane
Mating Call
90
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(37)
Jun
B.B. King
Singin' The Blues
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(37)
Apr
Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane & Zoot Sims
Tenor Conclave
80
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(34)
Dec
Miles Davis
Bags' Groove
100
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(34)
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Nov
Idrees Sulieman, Webster Young, John Coltrane, Bobby Jaspar
Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors
70
critic score
(1)
63
user score
(32)
Apr 1
Duke Ellington
Such Sweet Thunder
95
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(30)
Sep 24
Elvis Presley
Jailhouse Rock
80
user score
(30)
1957
Various Artists
My Pussy Belongs to Daddy
29
user score
(28)
Jan 1
Art Pepper
Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
100
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(28)
1957
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Ella & Louis Again!
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(27)
Dec
The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers
90
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(27)
1957
Billie Holiday
Songs for Distingué Lovers
60
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(26)
Jun 13
Carl Perkins
The Dance Album of Carl Perkins
100
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(26)
Nov
Charles Mingus, Hampton Hawes & Danny Richmond
Mingus Three
60
critic score
(1)
64
user score
(26)
1957
Nat King Cole
After Midnight
76
user score
(25)
Apr 1
Nat King Cole
Love Is the Thing
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(25)
Apr 4
Frank Sinatra
Close To You And More
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(21)
Oct 1
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
79
user score
(21)
1957
Sun Ra & His Arkestra
Jazz by Sun Ra
80
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(19)
1957
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
95
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(18)
1957
The Ben Webster Quintet
Soulville
100
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(18)
1957
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Himself
90
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(17)
1957
Trio Pasquier
Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
80
user score
(16)
Oct 16
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(16)
Feb
Bill Evans
New Jazz Conceptions
80
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(15)
Jun
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Drum Suite
73
user score
(15)
Aug 1
Ray Charles
The Great Ray Charles
65
critic score
(2)
69
user score
(15)
1957
Charlie Parker
April in Paris
79
user score
(14)
Mar 1
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins, Vol. 1
80
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(13)
1957
Billie Holiday
Body and Soul
60
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(12)
1957
The Coasters
The Coasters
80
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(12)
Mar 4
Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
70
user score
(12)
May
Martin Denny
Exotica
60
critic score
(1)
60
user score
(12)
Jul
Coleman Hawkins
The Hawk Flies High
90
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(12)
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