Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners
By 1957, Thelonious Monk had spent years earning the admiration of fellow musicians while remaining something of an enigma to the broader jazz audience.…
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– 1957
Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool
Few albums have altered the course of jazz as profoundly as Birth of the Cool. Although the recordings were made between 1949 and 1950…
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Sabu – Palo congo
When discussions turn to the greatest jazz albums of the 1950s, names like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Charles Mingus usually dominate the conversation.…
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Fats Domino – This Is Fats
Few artists helped shape the sound of early rock and roll as profoundly—or as effortlessly—as Fats Domino. While some of his contemporaries built their…
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Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard
If rock and roll had a heartbeat in the mid-1950s, it was probably pounding somewhere inside Here’s Little Richard. Released in 1957, this explosive…
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The Crickets – The Chirping Crickets
When people think of the birth of rock and roll, names like Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry usually dominate the conversation. Yet…
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