Top Albums of 1954





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
1
365
Miles Davis Classics in Jazz/Birth of the Cool Cool Jazz
2
1149
Clifford Brown & Max Roach Daahoud/Clifford Brown & Max Roach Hard Bop
3
1359
Art Blakey Quintet A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 Hard Bop
4
1533
Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy Dixieland, Vocal Jazz
5
1893
Sarah Vaughan Images/Swingin' Easy Vocal Jazz
6
1972
Dinah Washington Dinah Jams Standards, Vocal Jazz
7
2125
Art Blakey Quintet A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 Hard Bop
8
2132
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio With the Oscar Peterson Trio #1 & #2/The President Plays with the Oscar Peterson Trio Swing
9
2448
Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings Cool Jazz, Standards, Vocal Jazz
10
2781
Bill Haley and His Comets Shake, Rattle and Roll [1954]/Rock Around the Clock [1955] Rock & Roll
11
2859
Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge Roy and Diz #2 Jazz
12
2897
June Christy Something Cool Cool Jazz, Vocal Jazz
13
2925
Frank Sinatra Songs for Young Lovers Standards, Vocal Jazz

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Dave Brubeck Quartet Jazz Goes to College Cool Jazz
Frank Sinatra Swing Easy! Standards, Swing, Vocal Jazz
Bud Powell The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 Jazz
Gerry Mulligan California Concerts Jazz