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Best Albums of the 1950s by User Score
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Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
August 17th, 1959
Modal Jazz
,
Cool Jazz
USER SCORE
91
3,777 ratings
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2
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John Coltrane - Blue Train
January 0th, 1958
Hard Bop
USER SCORE
87
1,251 ratings
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3
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Original Cast Of Singin’ In The Rain - Singin’ in the Rain (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
April 11th, 1952
USER SCORE
87
10 ratings
Amazon
4
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Maysa - Convite para Ouvir Maysa, vol. 2
USER SCORE
87
17 ratings
Amazon
5
.
Maysa - Convite para Ouvir Maysa
USER SCORE
87
21 ratings
Amazon
6
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Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
September 14th, 1959
Post-Bop
,
Hard Bop
USER SCORE
86
977 ratings
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7
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
January 0th, 1959
Hard Bop
USER SCORE
85
593 ratings
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8
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Orchestra And Chorus Of The 1951 Bayreuth Festival / Wilhelm Furtwängler / Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Elisabeth Höngen / Hans - "Choral" Symphony
Symphony
USER SCORE
85
13 ratings
Amazon
9
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Billie Holiday - Stay with Me
July 0th, 1959
USER SCORE
84
16 ratings
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10
.
Nina Simone - Nina Simone at Town Hall
September 12th, 1959
Vocal Jazz
,
Standards
,
Cool Jazz
USER SCORE
84
29 ratings
Amazon
11
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
December 14th, 1959
Cool Jazz
USER SCORE
83
822 ratings
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12
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The Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop - The Clown
August 0th, 1957
Post-Bop
USER SCORE
83
347 ratings
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13
.
The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall
June 0th, 1956
Bebop
USER SCORE
83
54 ratings
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14
.
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
April 0th, 1957
Hard Bop
USER SCORE
83
350 ratings
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15
.
Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
March 0th, 1959
Cool Jazz
,
Post-Bop
,
Modal Jazz
USER SCORE
83
82 ratings
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16
.
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come
November 0th, 1959
Avant-Garde Jazz
USER SCORE
83
656 ratings
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17
.
Wilhelm Furtwängler / Ludwig Suthaus / Kirsten Flagstad - Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
November 10th, 1952
Opera
,
Romanticism
USER SCORE
83
31 ratings
Amazon
18
.
New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein - Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
Modern Classical
,
Orchestral
,
Ballet
USER SCORE
83
190 ratings
Amazon
19
.
Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Study in Brown
Hard Bop
USER SCORE
82
87 ratings
Amazon
20
.
Berliner Philharmoniker / Ferenc Fricsay - IX. Sinfonie; Egmont-Ouverture; Leonore III
Symphony
USER SCORE
82
11 ratings
Amazon
21
.
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
April 0th, 1954
Vocal Jazz
,
Cool Jazz
,
Standards
USER SCORE
82
727 ratings
Amazon
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22
.
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis
October 0th, 1956
Vocal Jazz
USER SCORE
82
241 ratings
Amazon
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23
.
João Gilberto - Chega De Saudade
April 1st, 1959
Bossa Nova
USER SCORE
82
265 ratings
Amazon
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24
.
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
August 0th, 1958
Hard Bop
USER SCORE
82
225 ratings
Amazon
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25
.
Little Walter - Best of Little Walter
January 1st, 1958
USER SCORE
82
10 ratings
Amazon
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