Best Albums of 1962
100 albums ranked by Wavelength users
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf
Money Jungle
Duke Ellington
Ella and Basie!
Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie
Monk's Dream
Thelonious Monk Quartet
Go
Dexter Gordon
Let Freedom Ring
Jackie McLean
Bashin' - The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith
Tijuana Moods
Charles Mingus
The Great Jazz Piano Of Phineas Newborn, Jr. (Remastered 1989)
Phineas Newborn Jr.
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Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus (with "Cast Your Fate To The Wind") [Deluxe Edition]
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Portrait of Sheila
Sheila Jordan
Tous les garçons et les filles (Legacy Edition)
Françoise Hardy
Mingus Plays Piano
Charles Mingus
Ornette!
Ornette Coleman
Night Train
Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson
Any Other Way / Sticks And Stones - Single
Jackie Shane
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
The Pink Panther (Music from the Film Score)
Henry Mancini
Domino
Roland Kirk
Out of the Afternoon
Roy Haynes Quartet
Hub-Tones
Freddie Hubbard
Stan Getz With Guest Artist Laurindo Almeida (feat. Laurindo Almeida)
Stan Getz
Mojo Hand
Lightnin' Hopkins
Undercurrent
Bill Evans & Jim Hall
Surfer Girl
The Beach Boys
Coltrane Plays the Blues
John Coltrane Quartet
Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin'
Odetta
The Stratus Seekers
George Russell
Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley
Cannonball Adderley
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Tony Bennett
Hootin' 'N Tootin'
Fred Jackson
Surfer's Choice
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
Go, Mongo!
Mongo Santamaría
The Outer View
George Russell Sextet
Odetta and the Blues
Odetta
Surfbeat
The Challengers
Stop and Listen
Baby Face Willette Quartet
Prayer Meetin'
The Incredible Jimmy Smith
Coltrane
John Coltrane Quartet
Hey Boss Man! (feat. The Night Hawks)
Frank Frost
Asia Minor (Reissue)
Dizzy Reece
Live At the Village Vanguard
John Coltrane Quartet
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Ray Conniff and The Ray Conniff Singers
Down To Earth
Freddie Roach
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Oh Yeah
Charles Mingus
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
Iron Man
Eric Dolphy with Booker Little
The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra
Sun Ra
Free Fall
Jimmy Giuffre
Criss-Cross
Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane
Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul & Mary
Moon Gas
Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo
Big Band Bossa Nova
Stan Getz
Confidentiel
Serge Gainsbourg
Twistin' the Night Away
Sam Cooke
Point of No Return (Bonus Track Version)
Frank Sinatra
The Best of Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke
Back Porch Bluegrass
The Dillards
Ornette On Tenor
Ornette Coleman
No Room For Squares
Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane & Zoot Sims
...And Then I Wrote
Willie Nelson
Twiste Et Chante
Sylvie Vartan
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Preludes & Fugues Nos. 1-8, BWV 846-853
Glenn Gould
The Electrifying Aretha Franklin (Expanded Edition)
Aretha Franklin
Green Onions
Booker T. & The M.G.'s
Don't Play That Song!
Ben E. King
Dakar (Remastered)
John Coltrane Quartet
I Will Follow Him
Peggy March
Zoot Sims In Paris (Live At Blue Note Club, Paris, 1961)
Zoot Sims
Brother Jack Meets the Boss
Jack McDuff
Mongo Introduces la Lupe
Mongo Santamaría and His Orchestra
Silver's Serenade
Horace Silver
Recuerdo
Chuck Mangione Quintet
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At the Half Note Cafe (Vol. 2 / Live At the Half Note Cafe, NY/1960/Remastered 2015) [feat. Pepper Adams, Duke Pearson, Laymon Jackson & Lex Humphries]
Donald Byrd
Hush!
The Duke Pearson Quintet
2-3-4
Shelly Manne
Leroy Walks Again!
Leroy Vinnegar Quintet
Impromptu
Billy Taylor
Going to the Movies - EP
Jerome Richardson
Coming Attraction - Live!
The Journeymen
Heavy Soul (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered)
Ike Quebec
Little Bird
Pete Jolly Trio & Friends
The Shadows (1961) / Out of the Shadows (1962)
The Shadows
Jazz Workshop Revisited
Cannonball Adderley Sextet
Sinatra and Swingin' Brass
Frank Sinatra
My Point of View
Herbie Hancock
Le premier bonheur
Françoise Hardy
All Alone
Frank Sinatra
Soothing Sounds for Baby, Vol. 1 (1 to 6 Months)
Raymond Scott
Meet The Supremes
The Supremes
The Sound of Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin (Expanded Edition)
Aretha Franklin
Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
Lee Hazlewood
Pot Luck
Elvis Presley
Girls! Girls! Girls! (Original Soundtrack)
Elvis Presley
Christmas With the Everly Brothers and the Boystown Choir
The Everly Brothers
Night Life
Ray Price
The Jazz Soul of Dr. Kildare
Harry Betts
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