Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1956

The Top Albums from 1956
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	120	Elvis Presley	Elvis Presley		Listen
2	210	Frank Sinatra	Songs for Swingin' Lovers		Listen
3	370	Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus		Listen
4	385	Duke Ellington	Ellington at Newport		Listen
5	410	Elvis Presley	Elvis		Listen
6	617	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, Vol. 1		Listen
7	637	Johnny Burnette	Johnny Burnette and the Rock'n'Roll Trio		Listen
8	748	Charles Mingus	Pithecanthropus Erectus		Listen
9	888	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook, Vol. 1		Listen
10	1094	Big Joe Turner	The Boss of the Blues		Listen
11	1104	Sonny Rollins	Tenor Madness		Listen
12	1252	Harry Belafonte	Calypso		Listen
13	1275	Horace Silver	Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers		Listen
14	1332	Modern Jazz Quartet	Fontessa		Listen
15	1352	Modern Jazz Quartet	Django		Listen
16	1370	Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong	Ella and Louis		Listen
17	1373	Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong	Porgy and Bess		Listen
18	1416	Fats Domino	Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino		Listen
19	1578	The Weavers	At Carnegie Hall		Listen
20	1581	Art Tatum	Group Masterpieces, Vol. 8		Listen
21	1667	Lennie Tristano	Lennie Tristano		Listen
22	1740	Lester Young & Teddy Wilson	Pres & Teddy		Listen
23	1876	The Louvin Brothers	Tragic Songs of Life		Listen
24	1931	Lester Young	The Jazz Giants		Listen
25	2042	Bill Haley and His Comets	Rock Around the Clock
26	2083	Jimmy Giuffre	Jimmy Giuffre 3		Listen
27	2117	The Original Motion Picture Cast	The Wizard of Oz		Listen
28	2137	George Russell	The Jazz Workshop		Listen
29	2194	Anita O'Day	Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day		Listen
30	2209	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	At Basin Street		Listen
31	2239	Sarah Vaughan	In the Land of HiFi
32	2391	The Original Broadway Cast	My Fair Lady		Listen
33	2438	Max Roach	Max Roach Plus Four		Listen
34	2452	Louis Prima & Keely Smith	The Wildest!		Listen
35	2483	B.B. King	Singin' the Blues
36	2508	Serge Chaloff	Blue Serge		Listen
37	2526	Oscar Peterson	Plays Count Basie		Listen
38	2578	Johnny Smith	Moonlight in Vermont		Listen
39	2967	Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong	Ella and Louis Again		Listen
40	2998	Julie London	Julie Is Her Name
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Tito Puente	Cuban Carnival
		Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt	For Musicians Only		Listen
		Kenny Dorham	Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia		Listen
		Sonny Rollins	Plus Four		Listen
		June Christy	The Misty Miss Christy		Listen
		Dinah Washington	In the Land of HiFi
		Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	The Jazz Messengers		Listen
		Sun Ra	Super Sonic Jazz		Listen
		Stan Kenton	Kenton in Hi-Fi		Listen
		Stan Kenton	Cuban Fire!		Listen