The Black Classics

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A chronological list of the greatest albums by Black artists (1939 - 2012)

Lead Belly

Negro Sinful Songs1939

Lead Belly And The Golden Gate Quartet

"The Midnight Special" and Other Southern Prison Songs1941

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday1947

Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker With Strings1950

Duke Ellington

Masterpieces by Ellington1951

Thelonious Monk

Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 11951

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday Sings1952

Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker

Bird and Diz1952

Thelonious Monk

Genius of Modern Music Vol. 21952

Duke Ellington

Ellington Uptown1953

Clifford Brown & Max Roach

Clifford Brown & Max Roach1954

Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins

Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins1954

Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra

Afro1954

Dinah Washington

Dinah Jams1955

Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan1955

Kenny Dorham

Afro-Cuban1955

Clifford Brown & Max Roach

Study in Brown1955

Harry Belafonte

Calypso1956

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book1956

The Quintet

Jazz at Massey Hall1956

Duke Ellington

Ellington at Newport1956

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Gospel Train1956

The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop

Pithecanthropus Erectus1956

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Ella and Louis1956

Fats Domino

This Is Fats1956

Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues1956

Odetta

Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues1956

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Sonny Rollins

Way Out West1957

Ray Charles

Ray Charles1957

Miles Davis

Birth of the Cool1957

Little Richard

Here's Little Richard1957

Miles Davis

'Round About Midnight1957

Nat "King" Cole

Love Is the Thing1957

Duke Ellington

Such Sweet Thunder1957

Thelonious Monk

Brilliant Corners1957

90

Sonny Rollins

Saxophone Colossus1957

91

Clifford Jordan And John Gilmore

Blowing In From Chicago1957

The Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop

The Clown1957

92

Miles Davis

Miles Ahead1957

Thelonious Monk

Monk's Music1957

Lena Horne

Stormy Weather1957

Ahmad Jamal

At the Pershing: But Not for Me1958

John Coltrane

Blue Train1958

96

Miles Davis Quintet

Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet1958

Billie Holiday

Lady in Satin1958

Nina Simone

Little Girl Blue1959

88

Little Richard

Little Richard1958

Lou Donaldson

Blues Walk1958

Thelonious Monk

Misterioso1958

Cannonball Adderley

Somethin' Else1958

91

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maztergame

1w

Really cool list

Rice

1mo

great list

Sickbeet

1mo

Amazing list!

jukejoint95

1mo

I love this list.

EdStanfill

3mo

where is "if I was black" by Tom Macdonald?

rodri_mercado

7mo

fantastic list