Best Albums of 1961

Out Front (Remastered) [feat. Max Roach]

Booker Little and his Quintet

Judy At Carnegie Hall

Judy Garland

Folksinger

Dave Van Ronk

8.6

West Side Story (1961 Motion Picture Soundtrack) [50th Anniversary] [2012 Remaster]

Jim Bryant

The Bridge

Sonny Rollins

8.3

This Is Our Music

Ornette Coleman Quartet

Waltz for Debby (Remastered) [Live]

Bill Evans Trio

Eastern Sounds (Remastered 2023)

Yusef Lateef

8.6

The Blues And The Abstract Truth

Oliver Nelson

8.6

Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

New Miles Davis Quintet

Ready For Freddie

Freddie Hubbard

Percussion Bitter Sweet

Max Roach

Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2

Ray Charles

4 Reviews

Sentimentally Yours

Patsy Cline

Olé Coltrane

John Coltrane

Crying

Roy Orbison

8.3

Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane

Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane

8.3

Africa/Brass

John Coltrane Quartet

8.2

Two Steps from the Blues

Bobby "Blue" Bland

9.0

Bo Diddley

9.0

Green Street (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

Grant Green

Leapin' and Lopin'

Sonny Clark

Takin' Off

Herbie Hancock

7.8

Jazz Reunion (Remastered)

Pee Wee Russell

Here 'Tis (RVG Edition)

Lou Donaldson

Workout

Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane & Zoot Sims

Bluesnik

Jackie McLean

The Genius Sings the Blues

Ray Charles

The Genius After Hours

Ray Charles

Meet the Temptations

The Temptations

This Is Walt Dickerson! (Remastered 1993)

Walt Dickerson

Gooden's Corner

Grant Green

Sinatra and Sextet: Live In Paris

Frank Sinatra

Up and Down (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

Horace Parlan

Pity And A Shame (Remastered 1992)

Mercy Dee Walton

My Kind of Blues

Sam Cooke

Million Sellers

Amos Milburn

At The Village Vanguard (Live At The Village Vanguard, New York City, New York / February 22 and 23, 1961)

Junior Mance Trio

Into Something (Remastered)

Yusef Lateef

Inta Somethin' (Recorded Live At the Jazz Workshop, San Francisco)

Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLean

The New King of the Blues

Buster Brown

Blue Hour

Stanley Turrentine

7.5

Joan Baez, Vol. 2

Joan Baez

The Great Reunion

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington

First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

Duke Ellington & Count Basie

The Sound of Music

Various Artists

Coltrane Jazz

John Coltrane Quartet

7.5

Folk Time

Hart Valley Drifters

7.8

Stravinsky Conducts Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Igor Stravinsky & Columbia Symphony Orchestra

7.8

Caravan

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Out of the Cool

Gil Evans

Jump Up Calypso

Harry Belafonte

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (Expanded Edition)

Ella Fitzgerald

7.6

We Free Kings

Roland Kirk

7.3

Hub Cap (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered)

Freddie Hubbard

7.5

Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie

7.4

The Interplay Sessions [2-fer]

Bill Evans & Jim Hall

7.4

The Quest (feat. Eric Dolphy & Booker Ervin)

Mal Waldron

7.4

Dexter Calling (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered]

Dexter Gordon

Kirk's Work (feat. Brother Jack McDuff)

Roland Kirk

7.3

Someday My Prince Will Come (Mono Version)

Miles Davis & Milt Jackson

7.3

El Rey Bravo

Tito Puente

Blue & Sentimental

Ike Quebec

Ring-A-Ding-Ding! (50th Anniversary Edition)

Frank Sinatra

N°4

Serge Gainsbourg

Marieke

Jacques Brel

Focus

Stan Getz

7.1

Freedom Sound

The Jazz Crusaders

Preach Brother!

Don Wilkerson

Wayning Moments - Plus (Remastered)

Wayne Shorter

Curtis Fuller With Red Garland (feat. Red Garland)

Curtis Fuller

Miles Davis At Carnegie Hall (Live)

Miles Davis

West Side Story

Oscar Peterson Trio

Grantstand (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

Grant Green

The Journeymen

The Twinkling Star

Umm Kulthum

Settin' the Pace [RVG Edition]

John Coltrane

The Quintessence

Quincy Jones and His Orchestra

Stratusphunk

George Russell Sextet

The Real Ambassadors (An Original Musical Production by Dave and Iola Brubeck)

Dave Brubeck & Jimmy Rushing

Berlin Concerts

Eric Dolphy

Woman Blues! (Remastered 1994) [feat. Lonnie Johnson]

Victoria Spivey

Ya! Ya!

Lee Dorsey

New Juke Box Hits

Chuck Berry

Mellow Moods

Clark Terry

Know What I Mean? (Remastered)

Cannonball Adderley

Face To Face

Baby Face Willette Quartet

Bossa Nova Bacchanal

Charlie Rouse

How My Heart Sings!

Bill Evans Trio

Grant's First Stand (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)

Grant Green

6.7

Doin' Allright (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered]

Dexter Gordon

6.7

Blue Hawaii (Original Soundtrack)

Elvis Presley

6.6

Something for Everybody

Elvis Presley

6.0

Showcase (feat. The Jordanaires)

Patsy Cline

6.3

Big Band Bossa Nova

Quincy Jones

6.3

Come Swing With Me!

Frank Sinatra

5.7

Surfin' Safari

The Beach Boys

5.1

Checkmate

Shelly Manne and His Men

5.0

Walk Right In

Gus Cannon

5.0