The Top 100 Albums from the 1950s

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Year	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	39	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	1959		Listen
2	106	Elvis Presley	Elvis Presley	1956		Listen
3	258	Frank Sinatra	In the Wee Small Hours	1955		Listen
4	272	Frank Sinatra	Songs for Swingin' Lovers!	1956		Listen
5	313	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Out	1959		Listen
6	327	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come	1959		Listen
7	341	Miles Davis	Classics in Jazz/Birth of the Cool	1954		Listen
8	363	The Crickets	The "Chirping" Crickets	1957		Listen
9	379	Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus	1956		Listen
10	407	Little Richard	Here's Little Richard	1957
11	410	Charles Mingus	Mingus Ah Um	1959		Listen
12	434	Elvis Presley	Elvis	1956		Listen
13	435	Duke Ellington	Ellington at Newport	1956		Listen
14	484	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music (Volume One)	1951		Listen
15	528	Thelonious Monk	Brilliant Corners	1957		Listen
16	534	Benny Goodman	The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert	1950
17	571	Howlin' Wolf	Moanin' in the Moonlight	1959		Listen
18	622	The Quintet	Jazz at Massey Hall/The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever	1953		Listen
19	624	Bo Diddley	Bo Diddley	1958		Listen
20	637	John Coltrane	Blue Train	1958		Listen
21	646	Billie Holiday	Lady in Satin	1958		Listen
22	647	Miles Davis	Porgy & Bess	1958		Listen
23	655	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook	1956		Listen
24	681	Ray Charles	The Genius of Ray Charles	1959		Listen
25	692	Johnny Burnette	Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio	1956		Listen
26	695	Count Basie	Basie/The Atomic Mr. Basie/The Complete Atomic Basie	1957		Listen
27	702	Cannonball Adderley	Somethin' Else	1958		Listen
28	704	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	Moanin'	1958		Listen
29	722	Frank Sinatra	Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely	1958		Listen
30	738	Erroll Garner	Concert by the Sea	1956		Listen
31	838	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2	1952		Listen
32	839	Bud Powell	The Amazing Bud Powell	1951		Listen
33	850	Charles Mingus	Pithecanthropus Erectus	1956		Listen
34	960	Miles Davis	Miles Ahead	1957		Listen
35	977	Miles Davis	Milestones	1958		Listen
36	997	Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown	Sarah Vaughan/Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown	1955		Listen
37	1005	Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong	Ella and Louis	1956		Listen
38	1039	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook	1959		Listen
39	1052	Sonny Rollins	A Night at the "Village Vanguard"	1958		Listen
40	1062	Sonny Rollins	Way Out West	1957		Listen
41	1063	Frank Sinatra	Come Fly with Me	1958		Listen
42	1105	Sun Ra	Jazz in Silhouette	1958		Listen
43	1128	Buddy Holly	Buddy Holly	1958
44	1174	Tito Puente	Dance Mania	1958		Listen
45	1179	Bo Diddley	Go Bo Diddley	1959		Listen
46	1187	Count Basie	April in Paris	1956		Listen
47	1202	The Original Broadway Cast	West Side Story	1957		Listen
48	1218	Chuck Berry	Chuck Berry Is On Top	1959		Listen
49	1224	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook	1956		Listen
50	1276	João Gilberto	Chega De Saudade	1959
51	1282	Art Pepper	Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section	1957		Listen
52	1308	Louis Armstrong	Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy	1954		Listen
53	1309	Big Joe Turner	The Boss of the Blues	1956		Listen
54	1327	Lambert, Hendricks and Ross	The Hottest New Group in Jazz	1959		Listen
55	1341	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Daahoud/Clifford Brown & Max Roach	1954		Listen
56	1347	Count Basie	Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings	1955		Listen
57	1351	Sonny Rollins	Tenor Madness	1956		Listen
58	1360	Art Blakey Quintet	A Night at Birdland Vol. 1	1954		Listen
59	1368	Jerry Lee Lewis	Jerry Lee Lewis	1958
60	1370	Miles Davis	Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet	1957		Listen
61	1377	Ray Charles	Ray Charles at Newport	1958		Listen
62	1399	Miles Davis	Round About Midnight	1957		Listen
63	1423	Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong	Porgy and Bess	1957		Listen
64	1425	Chuck Berry	One Dozen Berrys	1958
65	1429	Thelonious Monk	Monk's Music	1958		Listen
66	1438	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook	1957		Listen
67	1449	Lennie Tristano	Lennie Tristano	1956		Listen
68	1454	Sarah Vaughan	Images/Swingin' Easy	1954		Listen
69	1455	The Modern Jazz Quartet	Fontessa	1956		Listen
70	1474	Marty Robbins	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs	1959		Listen
71	1482	Harry Belafonte	Calypso	1956		Listen
72	1488	Frank Sinatra	A Swingin' Affair!	1957		Listen
73	1493	Art Tatum	The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 8	1956		Listen
74	1513	Sonny Rollins	Freedom Suite	1958		Listen
75	1540	Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker with Strings	1950		Listen
76	1547	Fats Domino	Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino	1956		Listen
77	1548	Elvis Presley	A Date with Elvis	1959		Listen
78	1565	Lightnin' Hopkins	The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins/Lightnin' Hopkins	1959		Listen
79	1578	Elvis Presley	Loving You	1957		Listen
80	1582	The Modern Jazz Quartet	Django	1956		Listen
81	1591	Jimmy Smith	The Sermon!	1959		Listen
82	1594	Miles Davis	Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet	1958		Listen
83	1604	Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps	Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps	1957		Listen
84	1616	Horace Silver	Horace Silver Quintet (Vol. 1 & 2)/Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers	1955		Listen
85	1631	Sonny Clark	Cool Struttin'	1958		Listen
86	1650	Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie	Bird & Diz	1952		Listen
87	1693	Harry Belafonte	Belafonte at Carnegie Hall	1959		Listen
88	1703	Dizzy Gillespie	Groovin' High	1955		Listen
89	1725	Stan Kenton	New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm	1953		Listen
90	1749	Ahmad Jamal	At the Pershing: But Not for Me	1958		Listen
91	1754	Frank Sinatra	Come Dance with Me!	1959		Listen
92	1757	George Russell	New York N.Y.	1959
93	1791	Elvis Presley	King Creole	1958		Listen
94	1805	Dinah Washington	Dinah Jams	1954		Listen
95	1807	Chuck Berry	After School Session	1957
96	1816	Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge	Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge/Roy and Diz	1954		Listen
97	1817	The Everly Brothers	The Everly Brothers (They're Off and Rolling)	1958
98	1835	Count Basie	At Newport	1957		Listen
99	1865	The Weavers	The Weavers at Carnegie Hall	1956		Listen
100	1867	The Everly Brothers	Songs Our Daddy Taught Us	1958		Listen

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