Top Albums of 1961
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Album▼ Genres▼
6
1026
 Max Roach We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite Avant-Garde Jazz
13
1880
 Ornette Coleman This Is Our Music Avant-Garde Jazz
15
2020
 Stan Getz Focus Avant-Garde Jazz, Cool Jazz
19
2521
 George Russell Ezz-Thetics Avant-Garde Jazz, Modal Jazz
17
2242
 Eric Dolphy At the Five Spot, Vol. 1 Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop
Milt Jackson and John Coltrane Bags & Trane Bebop, Cool Jazz
Stan Kenton Kenton's West Side Story Big Band
8
1102
 Gil Evans Out of the Cool Big Band, Cool Jazz
21
2731
 Jimmy Reed Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall Chicago Blues
1
495
 Bill Evans Sunday at the Village Vanguard Cool Jazz
24
2862
 Lee Konitz Motion Cool Jazz
Bill Evans Explorations Cool Jazz
14
1904
 Jimmy Giuffre 3 Thesis/1961 Cool Jazz, Third Stream
16
2135
 Jimmy Giuffre 3 Fusion/1961 Cool Jazz, Third Stream
25
2899
 Freddie King Let's Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddie King Electric Texas Blues
Henry Mancini Breakfast at Tiffany's Film Score, Lounge
11
1869
 The Original Soundtrack West Side Story Film Soundtrack, Show Tunes
Joan Baez Joan Baez, Vol. 2 Folk Revival
2
527
 Ornette Coleman Free Jazz Free Jazz
Cecil Taylor The World of Cecil Taylor/Air Free Jazz
3
642
 Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth Hard Bop
7
1084
 Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Hard Bop
12
1877
 Miles Davis Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet Hard Bop
20
2658
 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers A Night in Tunisia Hard Bop
26
2900
 Booker Little Out Front Hard Bop
Phineas Newborn Jr. A World of Piano! Hard Bop
Miles Davis In Person Friday Night at the Black Hawk, San Francisco Vol. 1 Hard Bop
Freddie Hubbard Ready for Freddie Hard Bop
John Coltrane Coltrane Jazz Hard Bop
Ike Quebec Blue and Sentimental Hard Bop
Freddie Hubbard Goin' Up Hard Bop
Art Blakey Mosaic Hard Bop
Jackie McLean Bluesnik Hard Bop
Dexter Gordon Doin' Allright Hard Bop
Grant Green Green Street Hard Bop
Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds Hard Bop
23
2834
 John Coltrane Africa/Brass Hard Bop, Modal Jazz, Post-Bop
Miles Davis In Person Saturday Night at the Black Hawk, San Francisco Vol. 2 Jazz
J. J. Johnson & Kai Winding The Great Kai & J. J. Jazz
Shelly Manne and His Men At the Manne-Hole, Vol. 1 Jazz
Dizzy Gillespie Carnegie Hall Concert Jazz
Helen Humes Swingin' with Humes Jazz
22
2747
 John Coltrane Olé Coltrane Modal Jazz
Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come Modal Jazz
5
686
 John Coltrane My Favorite Things Modal Jazz, Post-Bop
4
656
 Bobby Bland Two Steps from the Blues Rhythm & Blues
18
2404
 Ray Charles Genius + Soul = Jazz Rhythm & Blues, Soul Jazz
9
1146
 Judy Garland Judy at Carnegie Hall Standards
Ray Charles and Betty Carter Ray Charles and Betty Carter Standards, Vocal Jazz
10
1655
 The Shadows The Shadows Surf Rock
Charles Mingus Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited Third Stream
Eddie Jefferson The Jazz Singer Vocal Jazz
Abbey Lincoln Straight Ahead Vocal Jazz
Sarah Vaughan After Hours Vocal Jazz
Mark Murphy Rah Vocal Jazz