Saxophone Colossus
1956
St. Thomas is a calypso his mother sang him as a child. A critic later analyzed one solo bar by bar to show it was composed.
★ 5.9
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Showing 6 albums from 1956
Songs for Swingin' Lovers
1956
The trombone solo in I've Got You Under My Skin was played by a man standing on a box to reach the microphone.
★ 5.9
Elvis Presley
1956
Five of the tracks were leftovers from his Sun sessions. The Clash copied the sleeve, pink and green lettering and all, twenty-three years later.
★ 5.6
Ellington at Newport
1956
The tenor player Paul Gonsalves took twenty-seven choruses in a row and the crowd nearly rioted. Much of the record was quietly redone afterward.
★ 5.1
Concert by the Sea
1956
Garner could not read music, and the tape came from an amateur recorder someone happened to be running at the back of the hall.
★ 2.9
Elvis
1956
His second number one album in a single year, cut in Hollywood between films, with Elvis himself at the piano on several tracks.
★ 2.4