The Top 100 Albums from the 1950s

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Year	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	38	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	1959		Listen
2	115	Elvis Presley	Elvis Presley	1956		Listen
3	222	Frank Sinatra	Songs for Swingin' Lovers	1956		Listen
4	241	Frank Sinatra	In the Wee Small Hours	1955		Listen
5	297	John Coltrane	Giant Steps	1959		Listen
6	308	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come	1959		Listen
7	313	Dave Brubeck	Time Out	1959		Listen
8	316	Miles Davis	Jeru/Birth of the Cool	1954		Listen
9	330	The Crickets	The Chirpin' Crickets	1957		Listen
10	354	Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus	1956		Listen
11	366	Duke Ellington	Ellington at Newport	1956		Listen
12	369	Charles Mingus	Mingus Ah Um	1959		Listen
13	393	Elvis Presley	Elvis	1956		Listen
14	400	Little Richard	Here's Little Richard	1957
15	419	Thelonious Monk	Brilliant Corners	1957		Listen
16	430	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1	1951		Listen
17	483	The Quintet	Jazz at Massey Hall/The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever	1953		Listen
18	502	Benny Goodman	Live at Carnegie Hall	1950
19	530	Miles Davis	Porgy & Bess	1958		Listen
20	559	Howlin' Wolf	Moanin' in the Moonlight	1959		Listen
21	572	John Coltrane	Blue Train	1957		Listen
22	585	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, Vol. 1	1956		Listen
23	613	Frank Sinatra	Sings for Only the Lonely	1958		Listen
24	631	Johnny Burnette	Johnny Burnette and the Rock'n'Roll Trio	1956		Listen
25	645	Erroll Garner	Concert by the Sea	1955		Listen
26	649	Billie Holiday	Lady in Satin	1958		Listen
27	656	Count Basie	The Atomic Mr. Basie/The Complete Atomic Basie	1957		Listen
28	690	Cannonball Adderley	Somethin' Else	1958		Listen
29	693	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2	1952		Listen
30	706	Ray Charles	The Genius of Ray Charles	1959		Listen
31	719	Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown	Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown	1955		Listen
32	737	Charles Mingus	Pithecanthropus Erectus	1956		Listen
33	749	Miles Davis	Miles Ahead	1957		Listen
34	758	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	Moanin'	1958		Listen
35	766	Charles Mingus	Blues and Roots	1959		Listen
36	777	Bud Powell	The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 1	1951		Listen
37	785	Miles Davis	Milestones	1958		Listen
38	816	Bo Diddley	Bo Diddley	1957		Listen
39	817	Thelonious Monk	Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane	1957
40	821	Frank Sinatra	Come Fly with Me	1958		Listen
41	849	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook, Vol. 1	1956		Listen
42	858	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook	1959		Listen
43	862	Sonny Rollins	Way Out West	1957		Listen
44	940	Count Basie	April in Paris	1957		Listen
45	941	Thelonious Monk	Monk's Music	1958		Listen
46	966	Sonny Rollins	Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1	1957		Listen
47	997	Louis Armstrong	Plays W.C. Handy	1954		Listen
48	1046	Sonny Rollins	Tenor Madness	1956		Listen
49	1049	Art Pepper	Meets the Rhythm Section	1957		Listen
50	1076	Miles Davis	Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet	1957		Listen
51	1088	Big Joe Turner	The Boss of the Blues	1956		Listen
52	1095	Buddy Holly	Buddy Holly	1958
53	1097	Sonny Rollins	Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2	1957		Listen
54	1105	Ray Charles	Ray Charles at Newport	1958		Listen
55	1112	The Original Broadway Cast	West Side Story	1957		Listen
56	1121	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Daahoud/Clifford Brown & Max Roach	1954		Listen
57	1122	Art Blakey Quintet	A Night at Birdland Vol. 1	1954		Listen
58	1144	Frank Sinatra	A Swingin' Affair	1957		Listen
59	1154	Lambert, Hendricks and Ross	The Hottest New Group in Jazz	1959		Listen
60	1181	Tito Puente	Dance Mania	1958		Listen
61	1192	Miles Davis	Round about Midnight	1957		Listen
62	1199	Harry Belafonte	Calypso	1956		Listen
63	1203	Horace Silver	Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers	1956		Listen
64	1241	Count Basie	Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings	1955		Listen
65	1248	Modern Jazz Quartet	Fontessa	1956		Listen
66	1262	Bo Diddley	Go Bo Diddley	1959		Listen
67	1276	Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong	Porgy and Bess	1956		Listen
68	1277	Chuck Berry	Chuck Berry Is On Top	1959		Listen
69	1278	Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong	Ella and Louis	1956		Listen
70	1279	Sarah Vaughan	Images/Swingin' Easy	1954		Listen
71	1297	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook	1957		Listen
72	1300	Sonny Rollins	Freedom Suite	1958		Listen
73	1302	Frank Sinatra	Come Dance with Me!	1959		Listen
74	1305	Chuck Berry	One Dozen Berrys	1958
75	1306	Sun Ra	Jazz in Silhouette	1958		Listen
76	1313	Jimmy Smith	The Sermon!	1958		Listen
77	1319	Modern Jazz Quartet	Django	1956		Listen
78	1374	Harry Belafonte	Belafonte at Carnegie Hall	1959		Listen
79	1376	Miles Davis	Relaxin' with Miles	1957		Listen
80	1380	Count Basie	At Newport	1957		Listen
81	1403	Jerry Lee Lewis	Jerry Lee Lewis	1957
82	1404	Fats Domino	Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino	1956		Listen
83	1410	Lightnin' Hopkins	The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins/Lightnin' Hopkins	1959		Listen
84	1424	Dinah Washington	Dinah Jams	1955		Listen
85	1425	Marty Robbins	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs	1959		Listen
86	1448	Frank Sinatra	Songs for Young Lovers	1954		Listen
87	1452	Elvis Presley	Loving You	1957		Listen
88	1461	George Russell	New York, N.Y.	1958
89	1467	The Weavers	At Carnegie Hall	1956		Listen
90	1468	Dizzy Gillespie	Groovin' High	1955		Listen
91	1486	Elvis Presley	A Date with Elvis	1959		Listen
92	1487	Art Blakey	Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk	1958		Listen
93	1488	Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge	Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge	1954
94	1489	Art Tatum	Group Masterpieces, Vol. 8	1956		Listen
95	1498	Henry Mancini	The Music from Peter Gunn	1958		Listen
96	1512	Lee Konitz	Subconcious-Lee	1950		Listen
97	1531	Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie	Bird & Diz	1952		Listen
98	1534	Champion Jack Dupree	Blues from the Gutter	1958		Listen
99	1550	Sonny Clark	Cool Struttin'	1958		Listen
100	1557	June Christy	Something Cool	1954		Listen

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