Top Albums of 1959
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Album▼ Genres▼
Art Blakey At the Jazz Corner of the World Vol. 2 Hard Bop
6
737
 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers [Moanin'] Hard Bop
Art Pepper Art Pepper + Eleven Cool Jazz
Ben Webster Ben Webster and Associates Jazz
Bill Evans Everybody Digs Bill Evans Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz
12
1632
 Bo Diddley Go Bo Diddley Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll
Cannonball Adderley In San Francisco Hard Bop
Cecil Taylor Looking Ahead! Avant-Garde Jazz
24
2601
 Champion Jack Dupree Blues from the Gutter New Orleans Blues, Piano Blues
4
394
 Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um Post-Bop
8
984
 Chuck Berry Chuck Berry Is On Top Rock & Roll
30
2950
 Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster/Blue Saxophones Post-Bop
3
326
 Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out Cool Jazz
Dinah Washington What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! Standards, Vocal Jazz
23
2536
 Duke Ellington Anatomy of a Murder Big Band, Film Score
Duke Ellington Jazz Party Big Band
Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Side by Side Jazz
11
1259
 Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook Standards, Vocal Jazz
Ella Fitzgerald Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson Standards, Vocal Jazz
17
2095
 Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Porgy & Bess Vocal Jazz
Esquivel Exploring New Sounds in Hi-Fi/Exploring New Sounds in Stereo Lounge, Space Age Pop
27
2784
 Frank Sinatra Come Dance with Me! Standards, Vocal Jazz
Frank Sinatra No One Cares Standards, Vocal Jazz
20
2295
 George Russell New York N.Y. Big Band
Gerry Mulligan Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster Cool Jazz
Gerry Mulligan What Is There to Say? Cool Jazz
Harold Land The Fox 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
26
2774
 Horace Silver Blowin' the Blues Away Hard Bop
5
678
 Howlin' Wolf Moanin' in the Moonlight Chicago Blues
14
1849
 Jimmy Smith The Sermon! Soul Jazz
13
1712
 João Gilberto Chega De Saudade Bossa Nova
John Cage Indeterminacy Indeterminacy, Spoken Word
John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette Jazz
John Fahey Blind Joe Death American Primitivism
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
Little Richard The Fabulous Little Richard Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll
10
1173
 Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Cowboy
Memphis Slim At the Gate of Horn Piano Blues
1
29
 Miles Davis Kind of Blue Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz
7
739
 Miles Davis Porgy and Bess Big Band
Miles Davis Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet Hard Bop
Mongo Santamaría Mongo/AfroRoots Afro-Cuban Jazz
2
303
 Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come Avant-Garde Jazz
Ornette Coleman Tomorrow Is the Question! Hard Bop
Peggy Lee/George Shearing Beauty and the Beat! Standards, Vocal Jazz
Quincy Jones The Birth of a Band! Big Band
9
1135
 Ray Charles The Genius of Ray Charles Soul, Vocal Jazz
22
2414
 Ricky Nelson Ricky Sings Again Country
Ritchie Valens Ritchie Valens Rock & Roll
Sarah Vaughan No Count Sarah Big Band, Vocal Jazz
25
2764
 Sonny Boy Williamson (II) Down and Out Blues Chicago Blues
29
2853
 Steve Lacy Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk Post-Bop
The Kingston Trio At Large Folk Revival
28
2802
 The Lester Young - Teddy Wilson Quartet Pres and Teddy Swing
Thelonious Monk The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall Hard Bop
21
2409
 Wynton Kelly Kelly Blue Hard Bop