Best Albums of the 1950 s

Chet Baker Sings

Chet Baker • 1954

8.9

Birth of the Cool

Miles Davis • 1956

Moanin'

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers • 1958

8.6

Blue Train

John Coltrane Quartet • 1958

Way Out West

Sonny Rollins • 1956

Convite para Ouvir Maysa, Vol. 2

Maysa • 1957

8.7

In the Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra • 1955

Ella and Louis

Ella Fitzgerald • 1955

Soultrane (Remastered)

John Coltrane Quartet • 1958

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet • 1959

8.4

Missa Luba

Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin • 1957

8.4

Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

Marty Robbins • 1958

Satan Is Real

The Louvin Brothers • 1959

Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans

Bill Evans • 1958

Saxophone Colossus (Reissue)

Sonny Rollins Quartet • 1956

Stay With Me

Billie Holiday • 1957

The Shape of Jazz to Come (Mono)

Ornette Coleman • 1959

Drums of Passion

Babatunde Olatunji • 1958

Chega de Saudade

João Gilberto • 1959

Bags & Trane

Milt Jackson & John Coltrane • 1959

The Best Of Little Walter

Little Walter • 1957

Somethin' Else

Cannonball Adderley • 1957

Study In Brown

Clifford Brown & Max Roach • 1954

Sonny Side Up

Sonny Rollins Quartet • 1958

Milestones

Miles Davis & Milt Jackson • 1958

Little Girl Blue (2021 - Stereo Remaster)

Nina Simone • 1959

Vertigo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Bernard Herrmann • 1957

The Christmas Song (Expanded Edition)

Nat "King" Cole • 1955

Miles

New Miles Davis Quintet • 1956

Sings Ballads and Blues

Odetta • 1955

'Round About Midnight (Mono Version)

Miles Davis • 1957

Portrait in Jazz

Bill Evans Trio • 1959

All or Nothing At All

Billie Holiday • 1957

Ray Charles

Ray Charles • 1957

Songs of Faith: Aretha Gospel (Live at New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit 1956)

Aretha Franklin • 1955

I'm John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker • 1959

Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet

New Miles Davis Quintet • 1959

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book

Ella Fitzgerald • 1955

The Call of the Wildest (Expanded Edition)

Louis Prima • 1957

Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered)

Sonny Rollins Quartet • 1957

Caymmi e seu violão

Dorival Caymmi • 1959

Elvis

Elvis Presley • 1956

Diz and Getz

Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz • 1955

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk • 1957

Misterioso

Thelonious Monk • 1957

Chet

Chet Baker • 1958

India's Master Musician

Ravi Shankar • 1957

Singin' the Blues

B.B. King • 1955

Blues Walk

Lou Donaldson • 1958

T-Bone Blues

T-Bone Walker • 1958

Here Is Phineas

Phineas Newborn Jr. • 1956

The Very Thought of You (Expanded Edition)

Nat "King" Cole • 1958

No One Cares (Bonus Track Version)

Frank Sinatra • 1959

Little Richard

Little Richard • 1958

Porgy and Bess

Miles Davis • 1957

Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan • 1954

The Fabulous Little Richard

Little Richard • 1958

Jazz In Silhouette (Expanded Edition)

Sun Ra and His Arkestra • 1959

Lady Sings the Blues

Billie Holiday • 1956

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

Miles Davis • 1958

Ahmad Jamal At The Pershing: But Not for Me

Ahmad Jamal Trio • 1957

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue - An American in Paris

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic & Columbia Symphony Orchestra • 1958

Bowling Green and Other Folk Songs from the Southern Mountains

The Kossoy Sisters • 1956

Prélude au sommeil

Jean‐Jacques Perrey • 1958

The Sounds of India

Ravi Shankar • 1957

The Dance Album

Carl Perkins • 1956

Fontessa

The Modern Jazz Quartet • 1955

The Jazz Messengers

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers • 1955

Afro-Cuban

Kenny Dorham • 1954

The Cooker

Lee Morgan • 1957

He's So Fine

Jackie Wilson • 1958

Ellington at Newport: The Original Album

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra • 1955

With His Hot and Blue Guitar (feat. The Tennessee Two)

Johnny Cash • 1956

Plus Four

Sonny Rollins • 1955

Come Fly With Me (Mono Version)

Frank Sinatra • 1958

Something Else!!!! (The Music of Ornette Coleman)

Ornette Coleman • 1958

Things Are Swingin'

Peggy Lee • 1958

Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster

Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster • 1959

Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs

Big Bill Broonzy • 1955

Lady In Satin

Billie Holiday • 1958

Finger Poppin' (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered]

Horace Silver • 1959

The Sermon!

Jimmy Smith • 1958

Change of the Century

Ornette Coleman • 1959

What Is There to Say?

Gerry Mulligan • 1958

Songs for Distingué Lovers

Billie Holiday • 1956

Clifford Brown and Max Roach At Basin Street

Clifford Brown & Max Roach • 1956

The Big Beat (Remastered)

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers • 1959

Helen Merrill With Strings

Helen Merrill • 1954

Soulville

Ben Webster Quintet • 1956

Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson

Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson • 1958

A Blowin' Session (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered]

Johnny Griffin • 1957

Love Is the Thing (And More)

Nat "King" Cole • 1957

Ray Charles At Newport (Live)

Ray Charles • 1958

Blowin' the Blues Away

The Horace Silver Quintet • 1959

Songs for Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra • 1956

Cool Struttin’

Sonny Clark • 1958

Sings for Only the Lonely (2018 Stereo Mix)

Frank Sinatra • 1958

Blues In Orbit

Duke Ellington • 1959