Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1956

The Top Albums from 1956
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	106	Elvis Presley	Elvis Presley		Listen
2	272	Frank Sinatra	Songs for Swingin' Lovers!		Listen
3	379	Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus		Listen
4	434	Elvis Presley	Elvis		Listen
5	435	Duke Ellington	Ellington at Newport		Listen
6	655	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook		Listen
7	692	Johnny Burnette	Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio		Listen
8	738	Erroll Garner	Concert by the Sea		Listen
9	850	Charles Mingus	Pithecanthropus Erectus		Listen
10	1005	Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong	Ella and Louis		Listen
11	1187	Count Basie	April in Paris		Listen
12	1224	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook		Listen
13	1309	Big Joe Turner	The Boss of the Blues		Listen
14	1351	Sonny Rollins	Tenor Madness		Listen
15	1449	Lennie Tristano	Lennie Tristano		Listen
16	1455	The Modern Jazz Quartet	Fontessa		Listen
17	1482	Harry Belafonte	Calypso		Listen
18	1493	Art Tatum	The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 8		Listen
19	1547	Fats Domino	Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino		Listen
20	1582	The Modern Jazz Quartet	Django		Listen
21	1865	The Weavers	The Weavers at Carnegie Hall		Listen
22	1920	Nat King Cole	After Midnight		Listen
23	1927	Billie Holiday	Lady Sings the Blues		Listen
24	2096	The Lester Young - Teddy Wilson Quartet	Pres & Teddy		Listen
25	2234	Jimmy Giuffre	Jimmy Giuffre 3		Listen
26	2298	The Louvin Brothers	Tragic Songs of Life		Listen
27	2299	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	At Basin Street		Listen
28	2301	Louis Prima	The Wildest!		Listen
29	2347	Anita O'Day	Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day		Listen
30	2547	Fats Domino	This Is Fats Domino!		Listen
31	2678	The Original Broadway Cast	My Fair Lady		Listen
32	2809	Art Blakey	The Jazz Messengers		Listen
33	2877	Lester Young	The Jazz Giants		Listen
34	2981	Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt	For Musicians Only		Listen
35	2999	Serge Chaloff	Blue Serge		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Hampton Hawes	This Is Hampton Hawes: Vol. 2, The Trio		Listen
		Sonny Rollins	Work Time		Listen
		Oscar Peterson	Plays Count Basie		Listen
		Max Roach	Max Roach + 4		Listen
		Johnny Smith	Moonlight in Vermont		Listen
		Tito Puente	Cuban Carnival
		Kenny Dorham	Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia		Listen
		Cecil Taylor	Jazz Advance		Listen
		Sonny Rollins	Plus 4		Listen
		June Christy	The Misty Miss Christy		Listen
		Stan Kenton	Cuban Fire!		Listen
		Stan Kenton	Kenton in Hi-Fi		Listen
		Ravi Shankar	Three Ragas		Listen
		Dinah Washington	In the Land of Hi-Fi
		Oscar Peterson	At the Stratford Shakespearian Festival