Urban75 Album of the Year 1958

[belboid]

10 - Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else

The New Bird, with some bloke called Miles alongside him, makes those standards anything but.

 

[belboid]

9 - Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely

Another set of classic torch songfs from the man who'd just divorced Ava Gardner.

 

[belboid]

8 - Thelonious Monk Quartet - Misterioso

Live from the Five Spot Café. Another hard bop classic. Unless you think Griffin's sax playing is shit. Which you obviously didn't.

 

[belboid]

7 - Miles Davis Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

It's that man again, being all Frenchy.

 

[TruXta]

Ah balls I forgot about the noon deadline

 

[belboid]

6 - Count Basie Atomic Mr Basie

Could it really be? A jazz album listed that isnt hard bop?! Apparently so. Mr Basie's last great record

 

[belboid]

5 - Dorothy Ashby - Hip Harp

I'm guessing anything with a harp can't really be hard bop either. This has a harp.

 

[belboid]

4 - Ornette Coleman Something Else!!!!

The debut album by some lift operator dude.

 

[belboid]

3 - Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

A highly dubious entry,seeing as it's mostly old singles from before '58, but I'm feeling generous.

 

[belboid]

2 - Little Richard - Little Richard

It's the one with Good Golly, Miss Molly on it

 

[belboid]

1 - Miles Davis - Milestones

It's modal, maaaan

 

[Indeliblelink]

Cheers belboid
Here's my list for 1958 -

01 Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
02 Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly
03 Elizabeth Cotten - Folksongs and Instrumentals With Guitar
04 Little Richard - Little Richard
05 Blossom Dearie - Once Upon A Summertime
06 Frank Sinatra - Sings For Only The Lonely
07 The Chantels - We Are The Chantels
08 Jesse Fuller - Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals & Blues
09 The Champs - Go, Champs, Go!
10 Spokes Mashiyane - King Kwela
11 The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers (They're Off And Rolling)
12 Voodoo Drums - Voodoo Drums In Hi-Fi
13 Ahmed Abdul-Malik – Jazz Sahara
14 Ravi Shankar - India's Master Musician
15 Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
16 Johnny Cash - The Fabulous Johnny Cash
17 Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin
18 Joachim Ngoi Et Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin - Missa Luba
19 Count Basie and His Orchestra - The Atomic Basie *
20 Jean-Jacques Perrey - Prélude au sommeil *
* had these two in my 1957 chart, release dates seem to differ from site to site so I've stuck them on the end for this year too.

I would of put the Bo Diddley LP in there if I knew it counted.

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[Spandex]

Cheers belboid

Here's my list:

1 Tito Puente & his Orchestra – Dance Mania

Tito Puente was an institution. The king of the timbales. The best known mambo band leader in the US. The music teacher at Spingfield Elementary School (he was well known enough to be in The Simpsons while it was still good). He released something like 300 albums across six decades. With that much music, it should be hard to know where to start (other than a ‘best of’), but really this album is the essential classic. Amazing.

2 Little Richard – Little Richard

When I looked at the tracklist I thought this must be a comp: Keep a Knocking, Good golly Miss Molly, Ooh! My Soul; The Girl Can’t Help It; Lucile. But no, it even passed the Lurdan test. Even when the record label forced him to record standards like By The Light of The Silvery Moon he turned it into a rocking Little Richard track well worth hearing.

3 Celia Cruz & La Sonora Matancera - La Incomparable Celia

The Queen of Salsa. The most popular latin artist of the 20th century with 23 gold albums. This is (I think) her second album and is fantastic.

4 José Prates ‎– Tam... Tam... Tam...!

Brazilian batacuda/samba album. You will recognise the chorus to Nana Imboro, as Sergio Mendes borrowed it for Mas-Que-Nada, which is like the unofficial Brazialian national anthem. And that’s not even the best track on here.

5 Dale Hawkins ‎– Oh! Suzy-Q

I knew the track Oh! Suzy-Q and when I listened to this album I thought it might be one of those one hit and a load of filler albums. But oh no. It’s great throughout.

6 Fats Domino ‎– The Fabulous Mr. D

It’s Fats Domino. And it’s great.

7 The Champs ‎– Go, Champs, Go!

Tequlia! And the other tracks are good too.

8 Duane Eddy - Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel

The birth of surf. I notice half of it’s co-written by a young Lee Hazelwood.

And no, I still don't like 50s jazz

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Great selections all round and fair judgement from our esteemed adjudicator*

Mine:

1. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
   
   
2. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
   
   
3. Art Blakey - Moanin'
   
   
4. Chuck Willis - King Of The Stroll
   
   
5. Sonny Clark – Cool Struttin’
   
   
6. Dale Hawkins - Oh! Suzy-Q
   
   
7. Little Richard - Little Richard
   
   
8. Mongo Santamaria - Yambu

The jazz ones are the only ones I really knew before this chart. Bo Diddley is a new fave.

Not heard the Miles, Monk or the Coleman, so some more fun to be had there.

*for Yo Diddley.

 

[sunnysidedown]

3 - Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

A highly dubious entry,seeing as it's mostly old singles from before '58, but I'm feeling generous.

then this is the clear winner

 

[nogojones]

A good few I'm gonna check out already

and my 10....

1. Miles Davis - Milestones

2. Thelonious Monk Quartet - Misterioso

3. Cal Tjader - Mas Rimto Caliente

4. Dorothy Ashby - Hip Harp

5. Jackson Do Pandeiro - Forro Do Jackson

6. John Coltrane -Soultrane

7. Cal Tjader - Latin Kick

8. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else

9. Elizeth Cardoso - Canção do Amor Demais

10. Cal Tjader ‎– San Francisco Moods

 

[danny la rouge]

7 - Miles Davis Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

It's that man again, being all Frenchy.

Had too much going on so didn’t get round to compiling a list. But thanks for doing this. I approve of the results.

I prefer this soundtrack ^ to Milestones. (It’s also a very fine film).

 

[Lurdan]

But no, it even passed the Lurdan test.

Thank fuck that can be retired now we can quote the Yo Diddley precedent (Mind you I'd have included Yowlin' Wolf, Clyde McYhatter and the Yobby Bland/Yunior Parker's LP's this year. And I guess it would also have made Jimmy Reed and James Brown and the Famous Flames first albums eligible too amongst many others).

Dating stuff was as much fun as before A really big raspberry to the online sources that claim the Jerry Butler album was 1958 for the time it took to confirm it wasn't. And I'm not disputing it but I didn't include Blakey's Moanin' myself because at the end of the day I couldn't be sure it wasn't actually Jan 59. FWIW I found the discographies on this site very helpful - Both Sides Now Album Discographies.

Since there was no limit I went for 25 like last year

• Miles Davis - Milestones
• Little Richard - Little Richard Vol. 2
• Ornette Coleman - Something Else!!!!- The Music of Ornette Coleman
• Ray Charles – Ray Charles At Newport
• Mal Waldron - Mal 3 Sounds
• Nat King Cole - The Very Thought of You
• Fats Domino - The Fabulous Mr. D
• Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
• Chuck Berry - One Dozen Berrys
• Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo OST
• Dinah Washington - Newport '58
• Max Roach + 4 at Newport
• Jackie Wilson – He's So Fine
• Sonny Clark - Sonny's Crib
• Dale Hawkins - Oh! Suzy Q
• Horace Silver Quintet - Further Explorations
• Sylvia Telles - Silvia
• Maysa Matarazzo - Convite para ouvir Maysa no. 2
• Kurt Weill - Lotte Lenya, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg – Die Dreigroschenoper
• Benny Golson - Benny Golson's New York Scene
• Frankie Lymon - Rock 'n' Roll
• Henry Mancini - Touch of Evil OST
• Gil Evans Orchestra featuring Cannonball Adderley - New Bottle, Old Wine
• Chris Connor - A Jazz Date With
• George Russell, Harold Shapero, Jimmy Giuffre, Charlie Mingus, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller - Modern Jazz Concert

 

[andysays]

Most of my ten choices have already been mentioned, but here's one which hasn't



I'm surprised that no one else seems to have gone for Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quartet, but maybe the fact it was recorded in 1956 but released in March 1958 has counted against it somehow

And thanks to belboid as always

 

[Knotted]

1) Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' in the Moonlight
2) Lotte Lenya - Die Dreigroshenoper in at no. 2
3) Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
4) Thelonious Monk Quartet - Misterioso
5) Thelonious Monk Quartet - In Action
6) Billie Holiday - Songs for Distingué Lovers
7) Ornette Coleman - Something Else!!!
8) Screamin' Jay Hawkins - At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins
9) Big Bill Broonzy - The Blues
10) Winifred Atwell - Poor People of Paris
11) Blossom Dearie - Once Upon a Summertime
12) Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly
13) Little Richard - Little Richard

Not sure what I was thinking with the Screamin' Jay Hawkins. It's better than you might think, but maybe not that good. What happened to Moanin' in the Moonlight? Curse of the compilation rule or something?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Cheers belboid
Here's my list for 1958 -

01 Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
02 Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly
03 Elizabeth Cotten - Folksongs and Instrumentals With Guitar
04 Little Richard - Little Richard
05 Blossom Dearie - Once Upon A Summertime
06 Frank Sinatra - Sings For Only The Lonely
07 The Chantels - We Are The Chantels
08 Jesse Fuller - Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals & Blues
09 The Champs - Go, Champs, Go!
10 Spokes Mashiyane - King Kwela
11 The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers (They're Off And Rolling)
12 Voodoo Drums - Voodoo Drums In Hi-Fi
13 Ahmed Abdul-Malik – Jazz Sahara
14 Ravi Shankar - India's Master Musician
15 Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
16 Johnny Cash - The Fabulous Johnny Cash
17 Billie Holiday - Lady In Satin
18 Joachim Ngoi Et Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin - Missa Luba
19 Count Basie and His Orchestra - The Atomic Basie *
20 Jean-Jacques Perrey - Prélude au sommeil *
* had these two in my 1957 chart, release dates seem to differ from site to site so I've stuck them on the end for this year too.

I would of put the Bo Diddley LP in there if I knew it counted.

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Ah, only just seen this thread. I'd vote for the champs. I managed to pick up a mint condition original copy of that this year. Go champs go.

 

[Spandex]

What happened to Moanin' in the Moonlight? Curse of the compilation rule or something?

The not especially trustworthy Wikipedia says:

Moanin' in the Moonlight was the debut album by American blues singer Howlin' Wolf. The album was a compilation of previously issued singles by Chess Records. It was originally released by Chess Records as a mono-format LP record in 1959.

 

[Knotted]

According to discogs it was released in both 58 and 59 but fair enough on the compilation issue. I guess the jazzers won this year by releasing proper albums. The dirty rotten swines.

 

[Knotted]

The Poor People of Paris record is ace by the way. She doesn't just absolutely nail it in style as usual but the subtle backing is both somehow both novel and appropriate.

 

[Knotted]

You know I've not even heard of the champs

 

[Indeliblelink]

Ah, only just seen this thread. I'd vote for the champs. I managed to pick up a mint condition original copy of that this year. Go champs go.

Worth it for the cover alone.

 

[Spandex]

You know I've not even heard of the champs

I'm sure you've heard Tequila, even if you don't know it's by The Champs.

Originally it was a throw away b-side to a single that didn't get anywhere. Once it got picked up by radio DJs it rocketed to #1 and became an enduring classic.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

You know I've not even heard of the champs

I think you will know a few of the songs. Altogether it's quite solid and the 'hits' don't stick out like sore thumbs.

 

[Knotted]

Oh yeah Tequila. It's better than I remember it too.

 

[sunnysidedown]

What happened to Moanin' in the Moonlight? Curse of the compilation rule or something?

I seem to recall the Lurdan test stated that the album was not to be a collection of previously released singles, which would of excluded 2 of my 3.

1. Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' in the Moonlight
2. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
3. Gene Vincent - Gene Vincent Rocks! and the Blue Caps Roll

I think it's a fair enough rule though!