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Best Albums of 1959 by User Score

Decade
Genre
Min. Ratings
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1959

1.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
August 17th, 1959
Modal Jazz
USER SCORE
90
1,546 ratings

2.

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
September 14th, 1959
Post-Bop
USER SCORE
86
412 ratings

3.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
January 0th, 1959
Hard Bop
USER SCORE
86
250 ratings

4.

Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come
November 0th, 1959
Avant-Garde Jazz
USER SCORE
85
314 ratings

5.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
December 14th, 1959
Cool Jazz
USER SCORE
84
342 ratings

6.

João Gilberto - Chega De Saudade
April 1st, 1959
Bossa Nova
USER SCORE
83
135 ratings

7.

Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
March 0th, 1959
Cool Jazz
USER SCORE
83
33 ratings

8.

Nina Simone - Nina Simone at Town Hall
September 12th, 1959
Vocal Jazz
USER SCORE
82
14 ratings

9.

Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess
March 9th, 1959
Big Band
USER SCORE
81
103 ratings

10.

Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt & Dizzy Gillespie - Sonny Side Up
January 0th, 1959
Bebop
USER SCORE
81
18 ratings

11.

John Fahey - Blind Joe Death
American Primitivism
USER SCORE
81
37 ratings

12.

Chet Baker - Chet
January 0th, 1959
Jazz
USER SCORE
81
27 ratings

13.

Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
September 1st, 1959
Country
USER SCORE
81
182 ratings

14.

Frank Sinatra - No One Cares
Standards
USER SCORE
81
22 ratings

15.

Frank Sinatra - Come Dance with Me!
January 1st, 1959
Vocal Jazz
USER SCORE
80
24 ratings

16.

Miles Davis Quintet - Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
September 1st, 1959
Hard Bop
USER SCORE
80
87 ratings

17.

Jacques Brel - N° 4
November 30th, 1959
Chanson
USER SCORE
79
10 ratings

18.

Johnny Cash - Songs of our Soil
September 27th, 1959
Country
USER SCORE
79
21 ratings

19.

Nina Simone - The Amazing Nina Simone
January 1st, 1959
Vocal Jazz
USER SCORE
79
23 ratings

20.

John Lee Hooker - I'm John Lee Hooker
August 0th, 1959
Blues
USER SCORE
78
12 ratings

21.

Columbia Symphony Orchestra / New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein - Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris
Modern Classical
USER SCORE
78
20 ratings

22.

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Jazz in Silhouette
May 1st, 1959
Post-Bop
USER SCORE
78
48 ratings

23.

The Horace Silver Quintet - Blowin' the Blues Away
November 0th, 1959
Hard Bop
USER SCORE
77
12 ratings

24.

Ritchie Valens - Ritchie Valens
March 0th, 1959
Rock & Roll
USER SCORE
77
16 ratings

25.

Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is on Top
July 1st, 1959
Rock & Roll
USER SCORE
77
109 ratings
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