Top Albums of 1956
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Album▼ Genres▼
1
133
 Elvis Presley Elvis Presley Rock & Roll
2
291
 Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin' Lovers! Standards, Vocal Jazz
3
560
 Duke Ellington Ellington at Newport Big Band
4
622
 Elvis Presley Elvis Rock & Roll
5
703
 Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook Standards, Vocal Jazz
6
872
 Erroll Garner Concert by the Sea Jazz
7
896
 Johnny Burnette Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio Rockabilly
8
906
 Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus Post-Bop
9
1085
 Lennie Tristano Lennie Tristano Cool Jazz
10
1125
 Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Ella and Louis Vocal Jazz
11
1270
 Harry Belafonte Calypso Calypso
12
1382
 The Modern Jazz Quartet Fontessa Cool Jazz
13
1587
 The Modern Jazz Quartet Django Cool Jazz, Third Stream
14
1617
 Billie Holiday Lady Sings the Blues Vocal Jazz
15
1641
 Big Joe Turner The Boss of the Blues Rhythm & Blues
16
1751
 The Original Broadway Cast My Fair Lady Show Tunes
17
1776
 Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook Standards, Vocal Jazz
18
1981
 Fats Domino Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino Rock & Roll
19
2081
 Sonny Rollins Tenor Madness Hard Bop
20
2154
 Louis Prima The Wildest! Big Band, Swing, Traditional Pop
21
2541
 The Louvin Brothers Tragic Songs of Life Close Harmony
22
2783
 The Original Motion Picture Cast The Wizard of Oz Film Soundtrack
23
2947
 Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt For Musicians Only Bebop

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Clifford Brown & Max Roach At Basin Street Hard Bop
Sarah Vaughan In the Land of Hi-Fi Big Band, Vocal Jazz
Serge Chaloff Blue Serge Jazz
Art Blakey The Jazz Messengers Hard Bop
Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie Jazz
Fats Domino This Is Fats Domino! Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll
Stan Kenton Cuban Fire! Afro-Cuban Jazz, Big Band
Lester Young The Jazz Giants Cool Jazz
Johnny Smith Moonlight in Vermont Cool Jazz
Ravi Shankar Music of India: Three Classical R?gas/Three Ragas Hindustani Classical Music
Sonny Rollins Plus 4 Hard Bop
Hampton Hawes This Is Hampton Hawes: Vol. 2, The Trio Hard Bop
Max Roach Max Roach + 4 Hard Bop
Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop
Kenny Dorham Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia Hard Bop
Sonny Rollins Work Time Hard Bop
Oscar Peterson At the Stratford Shakespearian Festival Jazz
June Christy The Misty Miss Christy Standards, Vocal Jazz
Tito Puente Cuban Carnival Afro-Cuban Jazz, Mambo
Stan Kenton Kenton in Hi-Fi Big Band
Dinah Washington In the Land of Hi-Fi Standards, Vocal Jazz