1950
8/10
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (1950)
7.5/10
- Stan Kenton: Presents (1950)
7/10
- Stan Getz: Quartets (1950)
- Ralph Sutton: Ralph Sutton (1950)
- Lennie Tristano: Wow (1950)
1951
8/10
- Stan Kenton: City of Glass (1951)
7/10
- Oscar Peterson: 1951 (1951)
- Shorty Rogers: Modern Sounds (1951)
1952
7.5/10
- Gerry Mulligan: Mulligan Quartet (1952)
1953
7.5/10
- Duke Ellington: Piano Reflections (1953)
- Shorty Rogers: Cool And Crazy (1953)
- Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charlie Mingus & Max Roach: Jazz At The Massey Hall
7/10
- Modern Jazz Quartet: Django (1953)
- Ben Webster: King Of The Tenors (1953)
- Jay Jay Johnson: Four Trombones (1953)
- Frank Sinatra: Songs for Young Lovers (1953)
1954
7/10
- Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan (1954)
- Chet Baker: Sextet (1954)
1955
7.5/10
- Herbie Nichols: The Third World (1955)
- Horace Silver: Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1955)
7/10
- Ahmad Jamal: Poinciana (1955)
- Erroll Garner: Concert by the Sea (1955)
- George Shearing: Spell (1955)
- Lennie Tristano: Lennie Tristano (1955)
- Oscar Peterson: At Zardi's (1955)
- Frank Morgan: Frank Morgan (1955)
- Herbie Nichols: Herbie Nichols Trio (1955)
1956
8/10
- Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
- Modern Jazz Quartet: Fontessa (1956)
- Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (1956)
- Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus (1956)
- George Russell: Jazz Workshop (1956)
7.5/10
- Lennie Tristano: Manhattan Studio/ New York Improvisations (1956)
7/10
- Max Roach: Plus Four (1956)
- John Lewis: Grand Encounter (1956)
- Horace Silver: Six Pieces of Silver (1956)
- Kenny Burrell: All Night Long (1956)
- Lucky Thompson: Tricotism (1956)
- Phineas Newborn: Piano Artistry (1956)
- Miles Davis: Round About Midnight (1956)
- Zoot Sims: Tonite's Music Today (1956)
- Mel Torme`: Touch (1956)
- Quincy Jones: This Is How I Feel About Jazz (1956)
- Stan Kenton: Cuban Fire (1956)
- Jimmy Giuffre: The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet (1956)
- Jimmy Smith: A New Star A New Sound (1956)
1957
7.5/10
- Charles Mingus: Tijuana Moods (1957)
- Art Blakey: Orgy In Rhythm (1957)
- Yusef Lateef: Jazz Mood (1957)
7/10
- John Coltrane: Blue Train (1957)
- John Lewis: Piano (1957)
- Milt Jackson: Soul Brothers (1957)
- Miles Davis: Miles Ahead (1957)
- Kenny Burrell: All Day Long (1956)
- Ben Webster: Soulville (1957)
- Sonny Rollins: Way Out West (1957)
- Ben Webster: Tenor Giants (1957)
- Art Pepper: Meets the Rhythm Section (1957)
- Art Taylor: Wailers (1957)
- Max Roach: Jazz in 3/4 time (1957)
- Jay Jay Johnson: Blue Trombone (1957)
- Hank Mobley: Quintet (1957)
- Herbie Mann: Flute Souffle (1957)
- Tito Puente: Top Percussion (1957)
1958
8/10
- Sonny Rollins: Freedom Suite (1958)
7.5/10
- Jimmy Giuffre: Western Suite (1958)
- Sun Ra: Jazz in Silhouette (1958)
- Art Blakey: Moanin' (1958)
- Cecil Taylor: Looking Ahead (1958)
7/10
- Jimmy Smith: The Sermon (1958)
- Blue Mitchell: Big Six (1958)
- Max Roach: Deeds Not Words (1958)
- Clark Terry: In Orbit (1958)
- Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else (1958)
- Chico Hamilton: Gongs East (1958)
- Hank Mobley: Peckin' Time (1958)
- Mongo Santamaria: Yambu (1958)
- Cal Tjader: Latin Concert (1958)
- Toots Thielemans: Man Bites Harmonica (1958)
- Thelonious Monk: Misterioso (1958)
- Jimmy Giuffre: The Four Brothers Sound (1958).
1959
8/10
- Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz To Come (1959)
- George Russell: New York New York (1959)
- Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue (1959)
- Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (1959)
- John Coltrane: Giant Steps (1959)
7.5/10
- Art Pepper: Plus Eleven (1959)
- Billy Taylor: And Four Flutes (1959)
- Charles Mingus: Blues and Roots (1959)
7/10
- Gerry Mulligan: What Is There To Say (1959)
- Horace Silver: Blowin; the Blues Away (1959)
- Horace Silver: Finger Poppin' (1959)
- Illinois Jacquet: Flies Again (1959)
- Ira Sullivan: Blue Stroll (1959)
- Jimmy Heath: The Thumper (1959)
- Milt Jackson: Bags And Trane (1959)
- Dave Brubeck: Time Out (1959)
- Mongo Santamaria: Mongo (1959)
- Jimmy Giuffre: Seven Pieces (1959)
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The best of the decade
- Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
- Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz To Come (1959)
- Modern Jazz Quartet: Fontessa (1956)
- George Russell: New York New York (1959)
- Stan Kenton: City of Glass (1951)
- Sonny Rollins: Freedom Suite (1958)
- Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (1956)
- Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue (1959)
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (1950)
- Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus (1956)
- Charles Mingus: Tijuana Moods (1957)
- Herbie Nichols: The Third World (1955)
- Jimmy Giuffre: Western Suite (1958)
- George Russell: Jazz Workshop (1956)
- Art Blakey: Orgy In Rhythm (1957)
- Sun Ra: Jazz in Silhouette (1958)
- Lennie Tristano: Manhattan Studio/ New York Improvisations (1956)
- Yusef Lateef: Jazz Mood (1957)
- Gerry Mulligan: Mulligan Quartet (1952)
- Ahmad Jamal: Poinciana (1955)
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