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1950s ALBUMS RANKED
A list by
avernannes
Updated 2mo ago
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1.
Miklós Rózsa
Ben Hur
1959
86
2.
Miles Davis
Porgy and Bess
1959
86
3.
Michel Legrand
Legrand Jazz
1958
86
4.
Nina Simone
Little Girl Blue
1958
84
5.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Out
1959
85
6.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Grieg: Peer Gynt
1958
84
7.
Elmer Bernstein
The Man With the Golden Arm
1956
83
8.
Charles Mingus
Mingus Ah Um
1959
82
9.
Duke Ellington
Anatomy of a Murder (From the Soundtrack of the Motion Picture)
1959
82
10.
Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
1959
81
11.
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra
Afro
1954
81
12.
Erroll Garner
Erroll Garner
1953
81
13.
Ahmad Jamal
At the Pershing: But Not for Me
1958
80
14.
Bill Evans
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
1959
80
15.
The Quintet
Jazz at Massey Hall
1956
80
16.
Ornette Coleman
The Shape of Jazz To Come
1959
79
17.
Charles Mingus
Pithecanthropus Erectus
1956
79
18.
Les Baxter
Ritual of the Savage
1951
79
19.
Sonny Rollins
Way Out West
1957
78
20.
Jerome Moross
The Big Country
1958
78
21.
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
The Hottest New Group in Jazz
1959
78
22.
Franz Waxman
Sunset Boulevard
1950
78
23.
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Moanin'
1959
78
24.
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Porgy and Bess
1958
77
25.
Wilbur Harden & John Coltrane
Jazz Way Out
1958
77
26.
Duke Ellington
Ellington Uptown
1952
77
27.
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
1956
76
28.
Lee Morgan
The Cooker
1958
76
29.
Clifford Brown & Max Roach
Study in Brown
1955
76
30.
Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n Roll Trio
Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio
1956
75
31.
Dimitri Tiomkin
High Noon
1952
75
32.
Cecil Taylor
Jazz Advance
1956
75
33.
Idrees Sulieman, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell & Tommy Flanagan
The Cats
1959
75
34.
Clifford Brown & Max Roach
Clifford Brown & Max Roach
1954
75
35.
Alex North
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
74
36.
John Coltrane
Blue Train
1958
74
37.
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk Trio
1953
74
38.
Thelonious Monk
Brilliant Corners
1957
73
39.
Dimitri Tiomkin
Lost Horizon
1950
73
40.
Miklós Rózsa
Lust for Life
1956
73
41.
Sonny Rollins
Plus 4
1956
73
42.
Lester Young
Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio
1954
73
43.
Bernard Herrmann
North by Northwest
1959
73
44.
Miles Davis
Dig
1956
73
45.
Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus
1957
72
46.
Bernard Herrmann
The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad
1959
72
47.
Cannonball Adderley
Somethin' Else
1958
72
48.
Miklós Rózsa
Quo Vadis
1951
72
49.
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
1956
72
50.
Bernard Herrmann
Vertigo
1958
72
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