Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1959

The Top Albums from 1959
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	37	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue		Listen
2	305	John Coltrane	Giant Steps		Listen
3	315	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come		Listen
4	324	Dave Brubeck	Time Out		Listen
5	384	Charles Mingus	Mingus Ah Um		Listen
6	551	Howlin' Wolf	Moanin' in the Moonlight		Listen
7	696	Ray Charles	The Genius of Ray Charles		Listen
8	782	Charles Mingus	Blues and Roots		Listen
9	875	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook		Listen
10	1197	Lambert, Hendricks and Ross	The Hottest New Group in Jazz		Listen
11	1270	Chuck Berry	Chuck Berry Is On Top		Listen
12	1328	Frank Sinatra	Come Dance with Me!		Listen
13	1349	Bo Diddley	Go Bo Diddley		Listen
14	1462	Lightnin' Hopkins	The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins/Lightnin' Hopkins		Listen
15	1480	Harry Belafonte	Belafonte at Carnegie Hall		Listen
16	1548	Elvis Presley	A Date with Elvis		Listen
17	1625	Marty Robbins	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs		Listen
18	1659	Bill Evans	Everybody Digs Bill Evans		Listen
19	1689	Bill Evans	Portrait in Jazz		Listen
20	1729	Gerry Mulligan	What Is There to Say?		Listen
21	1773	Miles Davis	Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet		Listen
22	1823	Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges	Side by Side		Listen
23	1974	Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away		Listen
24	2000	Sonny Boy Williamsson (II)	Down and Out Blues		Listen
25	2025	Elvis Presley	For LP Fans Only		Listen
26	2031	Thelonious Monk	At Town Hall		Listen
27	2047	Babatunde Olatunji	Drums of Passion		Listen
28	2095	Quincy Jones	The Birth of a Band!
29	2128	John Cage	Indeterminacy		Listen
30	2198	Gerry Mulligan	Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster		Listen
31	2310	The Kingston Trio	At Large		Listen
32	2363	Dinah Washington	What a Diff'rence a Day Makes		Listen
33	2418	Mel Torm�	Swings Shubert Alley		Listen
34	2467	Ricky Nelson	Ricky Sings Again		Listen
35	2468	Art Pepper	Art Pepper + Eleven		Listen
36	2513	Esquivel!	Exploring New Sounds in Stereo		Listen
37	2552	Memphis Slim	At the Gate of Horn
38	2658	Frank Sinatra	No One Cares		Listen
39	2661	Harold Land	The Fox		Listen
40	2692	Duke Ellington	Anatomy of a Murder		Listen
41	2742	Cannonball Adderley	In San Francisco		Listen
42	2775	Ben Webster	Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson		Listen
43	2776	John Fahey	Blind Joe Death		Listen
44	2797	Coleman Hawkins	Coleman Hawkins encounters Ben Webster/Blue Saxophones		Listen
45	3000	Wynton Kelly	Kelly Blue		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Mongo Santamaria	Mongo/AfroRoots		Listen
		Little Richard	The Fabulous Little Richard
		Ben Webster	Ben Webster and Associates		Listen
		Sarah Vaughan	No Count Sarah
		Duke Ellington	Jazz Party		Listen
		Ornette Coleman	Tomorrow Is the Question!		Listen
		Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Swings Lightly		Listen
		Sun Ra	Angels and Demons at Play		Listen
		Ritchie Valens	Ritchie Valens
		Art Blakey	At the Jazz Corner of the World Vol. 2		Listen
		Mongo Santamaria	Sabroso!		Listen
		Peggy Lee	Beauty and the Beat!		Listen