Top Albums of 1957





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
Johnny Griffin A Blowin' Session Hard Bop
Frank Sinatra A Swingin' Affair! Standards, Vocal Jazz
18
1987
Nat King Cole After Midnight Vocal Jazz
11
1568
Chuck Berry After School Session Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll
24
2520
Anita O'Day Anita Sings the Most Standards, Vocal Jazz
10
1492
Count Basie April in Paris Big Band, Swing
8
1444
Art Pepper Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section Cool Jazz
23
2476
Count Basie At Newport Big Band
Gerry Mulligan At Storyville Jazz
Dizzy Gillespie Birks' Works Big Band
4
531
Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Hard Bop
15
1876
Miles Davis Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet Hard Bop
The "5" Royales Dedicated to You Doo-Wop
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Ella and Louis Again Standards, Vocal Jazz
16
1889
Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook Big Band, Vocal Jazz
Elvis Presley Elvis' Christmas Album Christmas Music, Gospel, Rock & Roll
12
1581
Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps Rockabilly
2
393
Little Richard Here's Little Richard Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll
20
2275
Jimmy Giuffre Jimmy Giuffre 3 Cool Jazz
21
2300
Johnny Cash Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! Country, Rockabilly
Ella Fitzgerald Like Someone in Love Standards, Vocal Jazz
Nat King Cole Love Is the Thing Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz
19
2209
Elvis Presley Loving You Rock & Roll
6
1038
Miles Davis Miles Ahead Cool Jazz
Anita O'Day Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day Vocal Jazz
Reverend Gary Davis Pure Religion and Bad Company Acoustic Blues, Gospel
Ray Charles Ray Charles/Hallelujah, I Love Her So Rhythm & Blues, Soul
Henry "Red" Allen Ride, Red, Ride in Hi-Fi/World on a String Dixieland
9
1462
Miles Davis Round About Midnight Hard Bop
1
383
Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus Hard Bop
25
2584
B.B. King Singin' the Blues Electric Blues
22
2324
Duke Ellington Such Sweet Thunder Big Band
Sun Ra and His Arkestra Super-Sonic Jazz Post-Bop
3
408
The Crickets The "Chirping" Crickets Rockabilly
Charles Mingus The Clown Post-Bop
13
1729
The Everly Brothers The Everly Brothers (They're Off and Rolling) Close Harmony, Pop, Rock & Roll
Coleman Hawkins The Hawk Flies High Bebop
17
1925
George Russell The Jazz Workshop Jazz
14
1756
The Weavers The Weavers at Carnegie Hall Contemporary Folk
26
2938
Thelonious Monk Thelonious Himself Hard Bop
Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins Hard Bop
7
1235
Sonny Rollins Way Out West Hard Bop
5
685
The Original Broadway Cast West Side Story Show Tunes
Frank Sinatra Where Are You? Standards, Vocal Jazz