Key:
☆☆☆☆☆ - ESSENTIAL: Highest level of recommendation. A very special work to me.
☆☆☆☆ - EXCELLENT: Superb. A very accomplished work that I love.
☆☆☆ - RECOMMENDED: Good. Not one of my all-time favorites, but certainly worth checking out.
☆☆ - HAS MERITS: Has some redeeming features that make it interesting, but generally I would reserve this for specialists.
☆ - NOT RECOMMENDED: Skip this. Not worth it.
These are all completely subjective ratings, of course.
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| 尹心悳 - 死の讚美 / 復活의깃붐 (1926) | Trot, Waltz | Single | ☆☆☆ |
| Harry Revel, Les Baxter, & Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman - Music Out of the Moon (1947) | Space Age Pop | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Trío Aguilillas - Sones of Mexico (1950) | Son calentano, Son jarocho | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| John Cage [Maro Ajemian] - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1951) | Modern Classical, Sonata | Album | ☆☆ |
| Cantor David Kusevitsky - Cantorials (1951) | Ashkenazi Cantorial Music | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Fabre Duroseau - Haitian Piano (1952) | Méringue, Romanticism | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Cisco Houston - Cowboy Ballads (1952) | Western, American Folk Music | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Milt Jackson - Wizard of the Vibes (1952) | Bebop | Album | ☆☆ |
| Yma Sumac - Legend of the Sun Virgin (1952) | Exotica | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Various Artists - Indian Music of Mexico (1952) | Indigenous American Traditional Music | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Humberto Teixeira - Eu Sou o Baião (1953) | Baião | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Various Artists - Expedition Orénoque-Amazone - Musique Primitive Indienne (1953) | Indigenous American Traditional Music, South American Music | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| The Azuma Kabuki Musicians - Nagauta Music and Original Music and Arrangements From Older Classics (1954) | Nagauta | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Frantz Casseus - Haitian Dances | Haitian Music, Modern Classical | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Lolita Cuevas & Frantz Casseus - Haitian Folk Songs | Caribbean Folk Music, Haitian Music | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Jimmy Raney Ensemble - Jimmy Raney Ensemble (1954) | Bebop | Album | ☆☆ |
| Susan Reed - Old Airs From Ireland, Scotland, and England (1954) | Irish Folk Music, Scottish Folk Music, English Folk Music, Celtic Folk Music | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Richard Wagner [Wiener Philharmoniker / Wilhelm Furtwängler / Martha Mödl / Ludwig Suthaus / Leonie Rysanek / Ferdinand Frantz / Gottlob Frick / Margarete Klose] - Die Walküre (1954) | Opera, Romanticism, New German School | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Tony Fruscella - Tony Fruscella (1955) | Cool Jazz | Album | ☆☆ |
| Wardell Gray - Memorial, Volume One (1955) | Bebop, West Coast Jazz | Compilation | ☆☆ |
| Lee Konitz - Lee Konitz With Tristano, Marsh, and Bauer (1955) | Cool Jazz, Bebop | Compilation |
☆☆☆☆
aka Subconscious-Lee |
| Jack Montrose - Jack Montrose Sextet (1955) | Cool Jazz, West Coast Jazz | Album | ☆☆ |
| 唯是震一 - The Japanese Koto (1955) | Soukyoku | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours (1955) | Standards, Vocal Jazz | Album | ☆☆ |
| Dorothy Carless - The Carless Torch (1956) | Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop | Album | ☆☆ |