Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1957

The Top Albums from 1957
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	337	The Crickets	The "Chirping" Crickets		Listen
2	377	Little Richard	Here's Little Richard
3	478	Thelonious Monk	Brilliant Corners		Listen
4	602	John Coltrane	Blue Train		Listen
5	646	Count Basie	Basie/The Atomic Mr. Basie/The Complete Atomic Basie		Listen
6	919	Miles Davis	Miles Ahead		Listen
7	990	Sonny Rollins	Way Out West		Listen
8	1113	The Original Broadway Cast	West Side Story		Listen
9	1182	Art Pepper	Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section		Listen
10	1334	Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong	Porgy and Bess		Listen
11	1338	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook		Listen
12	1350	Miles Davis	Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet		Listen
13	1358	Miles Davis	Round About Midnight		Listen
14	1456	Elvis Presley	Loving You		Listen
15	1495	Frank Sinatra	A Swingin' Affair!		Listen
16	1604	Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps	Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps		Listen
17	1684	Chuck Berry	After School Session
18	1697	Count Basie	At Newport		Listen
19	1813	Nat King Cole	After Midnight		Listen
20	1834	George Russell	The Jazz Workshop		Listen
21	1868	Duke Ellington	Such Sweet Thunder		Listen
22	1984	Anita O'Day	Anita Sings the Most		Listen
23	2103	B.B. King	Singin' the Blues
24	2179	Henry Red Allen	World on a String		Listen
25	2228	Dizzy Gillespie	Birk's Works		Listen
26	2247	Frank Sinatra	Where Are You?		Listen
27	2276	Billie Holiday	Songs for Distingu� Lovers		Listen
28	2337	Lambert, Hendricks and Ross	Sing a Song of Basie		Listen
29	2360	Nat King Cole	Love Is the Thing		Listen
30	2622	The "5" Royales	Dedicated to You
31	2686	Thelonious Monk	Thelonious Himself		Listen
32	2720	Johnny Griffin	A Blowin' Session		Listen
33	2909	Ray Charles	Ray Charles/Hallelujah, I Love Her So		Listen
34	2915	Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Gerry Mulligan	At Storyville		Listen
		Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong	Ella and Louis Again		Listen
		Sun Ra and His Arkestra	Super-Sonic Jazz		Listen
		Coleman Hawkins	The Hawk Flies High		Listen
		Reverend Gary Davis	Pure Religion & Bad Company		Listen
		Charles Mingus	The Clown		Listen
		Elvis Presley	Elvis' Christmas Album		Listen
		Ella Fitzgerald	Like Someone in Love		Listen
		Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins	Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins		Listen