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(5)
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(8)
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(11)
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(4)
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(12)
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(6)
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(5)
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(7)
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(6)
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(14)
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(9)
Aug 17
Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
100
critic score
(5)
90
user score
(2,486)
Sep 14
Charles Mingus
Mingus Ah Um
100
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(633)
Dec 14
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Out
100
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(532)
Nov
Ornette Coleman
The Shape of Jazz To Come
100
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(443)
Jan
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Moanin'
100
critic score
(1)
85
user score
(356)
Sep 1
Marty Robbins
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(334)
Feb
Nina Simone
Little Girl Blue
80
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(181)
Apr 1
João Gilberto
Chega De Saudade
90
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(181)
Jul 1
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry Is on Top
90
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(176)
Mar 9
Miles Davis
Porgy and Bess
100
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(143)
Sep 1
Miles Davis Quintet
Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
95
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(128)
Jan 1
Howlin' Wolf
Moanin' in the Moonlight
100
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(103)
Oct 1
Ray Charles
The Genius of Ray Charles
90
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(87)
May 1
Sun Ra & His Arkestra
Jazz in Silhouette
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(67)
Mar
Bill Evans
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
80
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(56)
Aug
Idrees Sulieman, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell & Tommy Flanagan
The Cats
100
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(51)
Jan
Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt & Dizzy Gillespie
Sonny Side Up
80
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(48)
1959
John Fahey
Blind Joe Death
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(44)
Jan 1
Frank Sinatra
Come Dance with Me!
100
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(42)
Jan 1
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
90
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(41)
Jan
Chet Baker
Chet
80
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(39)
Oct
John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette
Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette
80
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(34)
1959
Frank Sinatra
No One Cares
90
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(33)
Jan 1
Nina Simone
The Amazing Nina Simone
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(31)
Feb 6
Elvis Presley
For LP Fans Only
100
critic score
(2)
68
user score
(31)
Sep 27
Johnny Cash
Songs of our Soil
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(31)
1959
Columbia Symphony Orchestra / New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein
Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris
80
user score
(30)
Mar 6
Sun Ra
Sound Sun Pleasure
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(30)
1959
John Cage / David Tudor
Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music
100
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(28)
Jul 1
Bo Diddley
Go Bo Diddley
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(28)
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Mar 19
Johnny Cash
Hymns by Johnny Cash
80
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(26)
Mar 23
Bobby Darin
That's All
90
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(26)
May
Charles Mingus
A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry
60
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(26)
May
Miles Davis
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
100
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(24)
Nov
Ornette Coleman
Tomorrow Is the Question!
80
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(24)
Mar
Ritchie Valens
Ritchie Valens
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(21)
Sep 12
Nina Simone
Nina Simone at Town Hall
90
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(19)
Nov 16
The Louvin Brothers
Satan Is Real
100
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(19)
Jan 1
Henry Mancini
The Music from Peter Gunn
100
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(18)
Jan 1
Serge Gainsbourg
N° 2
80
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(17)
Jun 6
Thelonious Monk
5 by Monk by 5
80
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(17)
Oct 19
Ray Charles
What'd I Say
60
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(17)
1959
Duke Ellington
Anatomy of a Murder (From the Soundtrack of the Motion Picture)
80
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(16)
1959
The Flamingos
Flamingo Serenade
80
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(15)
Jan 12
Johnny Cash
Greatest!
60
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(15)
Oct 26
Marty Robbins
El Paso
93
user score
(15)
Nov
The Horace Silver Quintet
Blowin' the Blues Away
90
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(15)
1959
Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago
90
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(14)
May 5
Antônio Carlos Jobim & Luiz Bonfá
Black Orpheus
90
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(14)
Nov 30
Jacques Brel
N° 4
60
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(14)
1959
Fats Domino
Fats Domino Swings
74
user score
(13)
1959
Dorival Caymmi
Caymmi E Seu Violão
78
user score
(13)
Aug
John Lee Hooker
I'm John Lee Hooker
90
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(13)
Nov 1
The Isley Brothers
Shout!
59
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(13)
Dec
Jimmy Smith
The Sermon!
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(13)
1959
John Lee Hooker
House of the Blues
80
critic score
(1)
62
user score
(12)
Jan
Dion & The Belmonts
Presenting Dion & The Belmonts
50
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(11)
Mar
Sonny Rollins
Newk's Time
80
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(11)
Aug 17
Santo & Johnny
Sleep Walk
85
user score
(11)
1959
Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
100
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(10)
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