The Top 100 Albums from the 1950s

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Year	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	37	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	1959		Listen
2	120	Elvis Presley	Elvis Presley	1956		Listen
3	210	Frank Sinatra	Songs for Swingin' Lovers	1956		Listen
4	224	Frank Sinatra	In the Wee Small Hours	1955		Listen
5	305	John Coltrane	Giant Steps	1959		Listen
6	315	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come	1959		Listen
7	324	Dave Brubeck	Time Out	1959		Listen
8	325	Miles Davis	Jeru/Birth of the Cool	1954		Listen
9	329	The Crickets	The Chirpin' Crickets	1957		Listen
10	370	Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus	1956		Listen
11	382	Little Richard	Here's Little Richard	1957
12	384	Charles Mingus	Mingus Ah Um	1959		Listen
13	385	Duke Ellington	Ellington at Newport	1956		Listen
14	410	Elvis Presley	Elvis	1956		Listen
15	429	Thelonious Monk	Brilliant Corners	1957		Listen
16	458	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1	1951		Listen
17	513	Benny Goodman	The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert	1950
18	514	The Quintet	Jazz at Massey Hall/The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever	1953		Listen
19	546	Miles Davis	Porgy & Bess	1958		Listen
20	551	Howlin' Wolf	Moanin' in the Moonlight	1959		Listen
21	613	John Coltrane	Blue Train	1957		Listen
22	617	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, Vol. 1	1956		Listen
23	625	Frank Sinatra	Sings for Only the Lonely	1958		Listen
24	637	Johnny Burnette	Johnny Burnette and the Rock'n'Roll Trio	1956		Listen
25	639	Billie Holiday	Lady in Satin	1958		Listen
26	657	Count Basie	The Atomic Mr. Basie/The Complete Atomic Basie	1957		Listen
27	683	Erroll Garner	Concert by the Sea	1955		Listen
28	696	Ray Charles	The Genius of Ray Charles	1959		Listen
29	712	Cannonball Adderley	Somethin' Else	1958		Listen
30	714	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2	1952		Listen
31	733	Thelonious Monk	Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane	1957
32	743	Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown	Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown	1955		Listen
33	748	Charles Mingus	Pithecanthropus Erectus	1956		Listen
34	781	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	Moanin'	1958		Listen
35	782	Charles Mingus	Blues and Roots	1959		Listen
36	789	Miles Davis	Miles Ahead	1957		Listen
37	792	Bud Powell	The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 1	1951		Listen
38	816	Bo Diddley	Bo Diddley	1957		Listen
39	829	Miles Davis	Milestones	1958		Listen
40	839	Frank Sinatra	Come Fly with Me	1958		Listen
41	875	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook	1959		Listen
42	888	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook, Vol. 1	1956		Listen
43	891	Sonny Rollins	Way Out West	1957		Listen
44	1000	Count Basie	April in Paris	1957		Listen
45	1014	Thelonious Monk	Monk's Music	1958		Listen
46	1021	Sonny Rollins	Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1	1957		Listen
47	1036	Louis Armstrong	Plays W.C. Handy	1954		Listen
48	1088	Art Pepper	Meets the Rhythm Section	1957		Listen
49	1094	Big Joe Turner	The Boss of the Blues	1956		Listen
50	1104	Sonny Rollins	Tenor Madness	1956		Listen
51	1121	Buddy Holly	Buddy Holly	1958
52	1122	Tito Puente	Dance Mania	1958		Listen
53	1126	Ray Charles	Ray Charles at Newport	1958		Listen
54	1146	Miles Davis	Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet	1957		Listen
55	1150	Sonny Rollins	Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2	1957		Listen
56	1178	Frank Sinatra	A Swingin' Affair	1957		Listen
57	1197	Lambert, Hendricks and Ross	The Hottest New Group in Jazz	1959		Listen
58	1229	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Daahoud/Clifford Brown & Max Roach	1954		Listen
59	1230	The Original Broadway Cast	West Side Story	1957		Listen
60	1236	Art Blakey Quintet	A Night at Birdland Vol. 1	1954		Listen
61	1252	Harry Belafonte	Calypso	1956		Listen
62	1270	Chuck Berry	Chuck Berry Is On Top	1959		Listen
63	1272	Miles Davis	Round about Midnight	1957		Listen
64	1275	Horace Silver	Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers	1956		Listen
65	1298	Sarah Vaughan	Images/Swingin' Easy