Top 50 Albums from the 1950s

#1: Miles Davis

#2: Charles Mingus

#3: John Coltrane

#4: Ornette Coleman

#5: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

#6: The Dave Brubeck Quartet

#7: New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein

#8: Sonny Rollins

#9: Cannonball Adderley

#10: Thelonious Monk

#11: Glenn Gould

#12: Thelonious Monk Septet

#13: Miles Davis

#14: Miles Davis

#15: The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop

#16: Nina Simone

#17: Clifford Brown and Max Roach

#18: Bernard Herrmann

#19: Columbia Symphony Orchestra / New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein

#20: Miles Davis

#21: Ella Fitzgerald

#22: Sonny Clark

#23: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan

#24: Clifford Brown and Max Roach

#25: Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner

#26: The Miles Davis Quintet

#27: Wilhelm Furtwängler / Ludwig Suthaus / Kirsten Flagstad

#28: Little Richard

#29: Berliner Philharmoniker / Ferenc Fricsay

#30: João Gilberto

#31: Billie Holiday

#32: Frank Sinatra

#33: Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins

#34: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

#35: Marty Robbins

#36: Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra

#37: Sarah Vaughan

#38: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

#39: Little Richard

#40: The Miles Davis Quintet

#41: Charles Mingus

#42: Vienna Philharmonic / Georg Solti / George London / Kirsten Flagstad / Set Svanholm / Gustav Neidlinger

#43: Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

#44: Frank Sinatra

#45: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Kondrashin / Van Cliburn

#46: Ravi Shankar

#47: The Miles Davis Quintet

#48: Clifford Brown & Max Roach

#49: Chet Baker

#50: Lee Morgan