Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1959

The Top Albums from 1959
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	39	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue		Listen
2	313	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Out		Listen
3	327	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come		Listen
4	410	Charles Mingus	Mingus Ah Um		Listen
5	571	Howlin' Wolf	Moanin' in the Moonlight		Listen
6	681	Ray Charles	The Genius of Ray Charles		Listen
7	1039	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook		Listen
8	1179	Bo Diddley	Go Bo Diddley		Listen
9	1218	Chuck Berry	Chuck Berry Is On Top		Listen
10	1276	Jo�o Gilberto	Chega De Saudade
11	1327	Lambert, Hendricks and Ross	The Hottest New Group in Jazz		Listen
12	1474	Marty Robbins	Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs		Listen
13	1548	Elvis Presley	A Date with Elvis		Listen
14	1565	Lightnin' Hopkins	The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins/Lightnin' Hopkins		Listen
15	1591	Jimmy Smith	The Sermon!		Listen
16	1693	Harry Belafonte	Belafonte at Carnegie Hall		Listen
17	1754	Frank Sinatra	Come Dance with Me!		Listen
18	1757	George Russell	New York N.Y.
19	2028	Miles Davis	Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet		Listen
20	2087	Champion Jack Dupree	Blues from the Gutter		Listen
21	2119	Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges	Side by Side		Listen
22	2169	Gerry Mulligan	Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster		Listen
23	2199	Esquivel	Exploring New Sounds in Stereo		Listen
24	2238	Sonny Boy Williamson (II)	Down and Out Blues		Listen
25	2252	Bill Evans	Everybody Digs Bill Evans		Listen
26	2349	Thelonious Monk	The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall		Listen
27	2441	Duke Ellington	Anatomy of a Murder		Listen
28	2502	Gerry Mulligan	What Is There to Say?		Listen
29	2582	Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away		Listen
30	2621	Art Pepper	Art Pepper + Eleven		Listen
31	2726	Quincy Jones	The Birth of a Band!
32	2786	Ben Webster	Ben Webster and Associates		Listen
33	2802	Ricky Nelson	Ricky Sings Again		Listen
34	2824	Elvis Presley	For LP Fans Only		Listen
35	2828	John Cage	Indeterminacy		Listen
36	2868	Dinah Washington	What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!		Listen
37	2930	Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster	Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster/Blue Saxophones		Listen
38	2961	Cecil Taylor	Looking Ahead!		Listen
39	2983	The Kingston Trio	At Large		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Babatunde Olatunji	Drums of Passion		Listen
		Steve Lacy	Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk		Listen
		Wynton Kelly	Kelly Blue		Listen
		Little Richard	The Fabulous Little Richard
		Cannonball Adderley	In San Francisco		Listen
		Harold Land	The Fox		Listen
		Frank Sinatra	No One Cares		Listen
		John Fahey	Blind Joe Death		Listen
		Sarah Vaughan	No Count Sarah
		Memphis Slim	At the Gate of Horn
		Ornette Coleman	Tomorrow Is the Question!		Listen
		Peggy Lee/George Shearing	Beauty and the Beat!		Listen
		John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette	Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette		Listen
		Mongo Santamar�a	Mongo/AfroRoots		Listen
		Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson		Listen
		Duke Ellington	Jazz Party		Listen
		Ritchie Valens	Ritchie Valens
		Art Blakey	At the Jazz Corner of the World Vol. 2		Listen