Top Big Band Albums
Rank
All Time
Artist
Album
Subgenre(s)
Other Genre(s)
Year
1
560
Duke Ellington
Ellington at Newport
1956
2
604
Benny Goodman
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Swing
1950
3
731
Count Basie
Basie/The Atomic Mr. Basie/The Complete Atomic Basie
Swing
1958
4
739
Miles Davis
Porgy and Bess
1959
5
1013
Duke Ellington
Far East Suite
1967
6
1102
Gil Evans
Out of the Cool
Cool Jazz
1961
7
1322
Carla Bley & Paul Haines
Escalator Over the Hill
Experimental Big Band
1971
8
1455
Charlie Haden
Liberation Music Orchestra
Experimental Big Band
1970
9
1492
Count Basie
April in Paris
Swing
1957
10
1889
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
Vocal Jazz
1957
11
2068
Stan Kenton
New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm
1953
12
2108
Gil Evans
The Individualism of Gil Evans
1964
13
2154
Louis Prima
The Wildest!
Swing
,
Traditional Pop
1956
14
2158
Count Basie
Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
Swing
,
Vocal Jazz
1955
15
2159
Duke Ellington
...And His Mother Called Him Bill
Swing
1968
16
2295
George Russell
New York N.Y.
1959
17
2323
Charles Mingus
Let My Children Hear Music
Experimental Big Band
Third Stream
1972
18
2324
Duke Ellington
Such Sweet Thunder
1957
19
2476
Count Basie
At Newport
1957
20
2536
Duke Ellington
Anatomy of a Murder
Film Score
1959
21
2972
Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra
Atlantis
Experimental Big Band
Free Jazz
1969
Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Dizzy Gillespie
At Newport
Bebop
1958
Duke Ellington
Ellington Uptown/Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown
1953
Sarah Vaughan
In the Land of Hi-Fi
Vocal Jazz
1956
Duke Ellington
New Orleans Suite
1971
Duke Ellington
Indigos
1958
Dizzy Gillespie
Birks' Works
1957
Quincy Jones
The Birth of a Band!
1959
George Russell
Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature
Experimental Big Band
1969
Gil Evans
Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix
Experimental Big Band
Jazz Fusion
,
Jazz-Rock
1974
Jimmy Smith and Wes Mongomery
Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo
Soul Jazz
1966
Stan Kenton
Cuban Fire!
Afro-Cuban Jazz
1956
Don Ellis
Electric Bath
Experimental Big Band
Third Stream
1967
Duke Ellington
Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943
Swing
1977
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
Standards
,
Vocal Jazz
1958
Duke Ellington
The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse: A Suite in Eight Parts
1975
Kenny Burrell
Ellington Is Forever, Vol. 2
1977
Buddy Rich
Swingin' New Big Band
1966
Duke Ellington
The Great Paris Concert
1973
Duke Ellington
Newport 1958
1958
Stan Kenton
Kenton in Hi-Fi
1956
Stan Kenton
Kenton's West Side Story
1961
Duke Ellington
Carnegie Hall Concerts: December 1947
1977
Duke Ellington
Jazz Party
1959
Duke Ellington
Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1946
1977
Duke Ellington & Count Basie
First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
1962
Sarah Vaughan
No Count Sarah
Vocal Jazz
1959
Sam Rivers
Crystals
Experimental Big Band
Free Jazz
1974
Duke Ellington
Carnegie Hall Concerts: December 1944
1977
Buddy Rich
Mercy, Mercy
1968
Fire! Orchestra
Exit!
Experimental Big Band
2013