Top Albums of 1959





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
1
29
Miles Davis Kind of Blue Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz
2
303
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come Avant-Garde Jazz
3
326
Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out Cool Jazz
4
394
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um Post-Bop
5
678
Howlin' Wolf Moanin' in the Moonlight Chicago Blues
6
737
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers [Moanin'] Hard Bop
7
739
Miles Davis Porgy and Bess Big Band
8
984
Chuck Berry Chuck Berry Is On Top Rock & Roll
9
1135
Ray Charles The Genius of Ray Charles Soul, Vocal Jazz
10
1173
Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Cowboy
11
1259
Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook Standards, Vocal Jazz
12
1632
Bo Diddley Go Bo Diddley Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll
13
1712
João Gilberto Chega De Saudade Bossa Nova
14
1849
Jimmy Smith The Sermon! Soul Jazz
15
1998
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross The Hottest New Group in Jazz Vocal Jazz
16
2063
Lightnin' Hopkins The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins/Lightnin' Hopkins Acoustic Texas Blues
17
2095
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Porgy & Bess Vocal Jazz
18
2157
Harry Belafonte Belafonte at Carnegie Hall Caribbean Folk Music
19
2243
Henry Mancini The Music from Peter Gunn Jazz Pop, Television Music
20
2295
George Russell New York N.Y. Big Band
21
2409
Wynton Kelly Kelly Blue Hard Bop
22
2414
Ricky Nelson Ricky Sings Again Country
23
2536
Duke Ellington Anatomy of a Murder Big Band, Film Score
24
2601
Champion Jack Dupree Blues from the Gutter New Orleans Blues, Piano Blues
25
2764
Sonny Boy Williamson (II) Down and Out Blues Chicago Blues
26
2774
Horace Silver Blowin' the Blues Away Hard Bop
27
2784
Frank Sinatra Come Dance with Me! Standards, Vocal Jazz
28
2802
The Lester Young - Teddy Wilson Quartet Pres and Teddy Swing
29
2853
Steve Lacy Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk Post-Bop
30
2950
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster/Blue Saxophones Post-Bop

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
John Cage Indeterminacy Indeterminacy, Spoken Word
Miles Davis Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet Hard Bop
Dinah Washington What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! Standards, Vocal Jazz
John Fahey Blind Joe Death American Primitivism
Harold Land The Fox Jazz
Ben Webster Ben Webster and Associates Jazz
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Side by Side Jazz
Bill Evans Everybody Digs Bill Evans Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz
Quincy Jones The Birth of a Band! Big Band
Thelonious Monk The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall Hard Bop
Esquivel Exploring New Sounds in Hi-Fi/Exploring New Sounds in Stereo Lounge, Space Age Pop
Cecil Taylor Looking Ahead! Avant-Garde Jazz
Gerry Mulligan Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster Cool Jazz
Art Pepper Art Pepper + Eleven Cool Jazz
The Kingston Trio At Large Folk Revival
Memphis Slim At the Gate of Horn Piano Blues
Ritchie Valens Ritchie Valens Rock & Roll
Cannonball Adderley In San Francisco Hard Bop
John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette Jazz
Frank Sinatra No One Cares Standards, Vocal Jazz
Gerry Mulligan What Is There to Say? Cool Jazz
Little Richard The Fabulous Little Richard Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll
Mongo Santamaría Mongo/AfroRoots Afro-Cuban Jazz
Peggy Lee/George Shearing Beauty and the Beat! Standards, Vocal Jazz
Duke Ellington Jazz Party Big Band
Ornette Coleman Tomorrow Is the Question! Hard Bop
Sarah Vaughan No Count Sarah Big Band, Vocal Jazz
Ella Fitzgerald Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson Standards, Vocal Jazz
Art Blakey At the Jazz Corner of the World Vol. 2 Hard Bop