Top Albums of 1956
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Stan Kenton |
Cuban Fire! |
Afro-Cuban Jazz,
Big Band
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Tito Puente |
Cuban Carnival |
Afro-Cuban Jazz,
Mambo
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Cecil Taylor |
Jazz Advance |
Avant-Garde Jazz,
Post-Bop
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23 |
2947 |
Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt |
For Musicians Only |
Bebop
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3 |
560 |
Duke Ellington |
Ellington at Newport |
Big Band
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Stan Kenton |
Kenton in Hi-Fi |
Big Band
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20 |
2154 |
Louis Prima |
The Wildest! |
Big Band,
Swing,
Traditional Pop
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Sarah Vaughan |
In the Land of Hi-Fi |
Big Band,
Vocal Jazz
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11 |
1270 |
Harry Belafonte |
Calypso |
Calypso
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21 |
2541 |
The Louvin Brothers |
Tragic Songs of Life |
Close Harmony
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9 |
1085 |
Lennie Tristano |
Lennie Tristano |
Cool Jazz
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12 |
1382 |
The Modern Jazz Quartet |
Fontessa |
Cool Jazz
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Lester Young |
The Jazz Giants |
Cool Jazz
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Johnny Smith |
Moonlight in Vermont |
Cool Jazz
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13 |
1587 |
The Modern Jazz Quartet |
Django |
Cool Jazz,
Third Stream
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22 |
2783 |
The Original Motion Picture Cast |
The Wizard of Oz |
Film Soundtrack
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19 |
2081 |
Sonny Rollins |
Tenor Madness |
Hard Bop
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Clifford Brown & Max Roach |
At Basin Street |
Hard Bop
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Art Blakey |
The Jazz Messengers |
Hard Bop
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Sonny Rollins |
Plus 4 |
Hard Bop
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Hampton Hawes |
This Is Hampton Hawes: Vol. 2, The Trio |
Hard Bop
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Max Roach |
Max Roach + 4 |
Hard Bop
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Kenny Dorham |
Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia |
Hard Bop
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Sonny Rollins |
Work Time |
Hard Bop
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Ravi Shankar |
Music of India: Three Classical R?gas/Three Ragas |
Hindustani Classical Music
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6 |
872 |
Erroll Garner |
Concert by the Sea |
Jazz
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Serge Chaloff |
Blue Serge |
Jazz
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Oscar Peterson |
Plays Count Basie |
Jazz
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Oscar Peterson |
At the Stratford Shakespearian Festival |
Jazz
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8 |
906 |
Charles Mingus |
Pithecanthropus Erectus |
Post-Bop
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15 |
1641 |
Big Joe Turner |
The Boss of the Blues |
Rhythm & Blues
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Fats Domino |
This Is Fats Domino! |
Rhythm & Blues,
Rock & Roll
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1 |
133 |
Elvis Presley |
Elvis Presley |
Rock & Roll
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4 |
622 |
Elvis Presley |
Elvis |
Rock & Roll
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18 |
1981 |
Fats Domino |
Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino |
Rock & Roll
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7 |
896 |
Johnny Burnette |
Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio |
Rockabilly
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16 |
1751 |
The Original Broadway Cast |
My Fair Lady |
Show Tunes
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2 |
291 |
Frank Sinatra |
Songs for Swingin' Lovers! |
Standards,
Vocal Jazz
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5 |
703 |
Ella Fitzgerald |
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook |
Standards,
Vocal Jazz
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17 |
1776 |
Ella Fitzgerald |
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook |
Standards,
Vocal Jazz
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June Christy |
The Misty Miss Christy |
Standards,
Vocal Jazz
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Dinah Washington |
In the Land of Hi-Fi |
Standards,
Vocal Jazz
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10 |
1125 |
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong |
Ella and Louis |
Vocal Jazz
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14 |
1617 |
Billie Holiday |
Lady Sings the Blues |
Vocal Jazz
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