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 (1954) | Haitian Music, Modern Classical | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Lolita Cuevas & Frantz Casseus - Haitian Folk Songs (1954) | 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 | ☆☆ |
| Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours (1955) | Standards, Vocal Jazz | Album | ☆☆ |
| 唯是震一 - The Japanese Koto (1955) | Soukyoku | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Dorothy Carless - The Carless Torch (1956) | Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop | Album | ☆☆ |
| Elmo Hope Sextet - Informal Jazz (1956) | Hard Bop | Album | ☆☆ |
| The Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa (1956) | Cool Jazz | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Moondog - Moondog (1956) | Avant-Folk, Exotica, Third Stream | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Ravi Shankar - Music of India: Three Classical Rāgas (1956) | Hindustani Classical Music | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| 宮城道雄 - 宮城道雄名曲選集 (1956) | Soukyoku | Album | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| 生田恵子 - パライバ / 東京の門 (1956) | Baião | Single | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Various Artists - Lappish Joik Songs From Northern Norway (1956) | Joik, A cappella | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Various Artists - The Baoule of the Ivory Coast (1956) | Akan Music | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Ray Byrant Trio - Ray Bryant Trio (1957) | Hard Bop, Jazz | Album | ☆☆ |
| Elizabeth Cotten - Folksongs and Instrumentals With Guitar (1957) | Piedmont Blues | Album | ☆☆ |
| Curtis Counce - You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce! (1957) | West Coast Jazz | Album | ☆☆ |
| Ray Draper Quintet - Tuba Sounds (1957) | Hard Bop | Album | ☆☆ |
| Ella Fitzgerald - Like Someone in Love (1957) | Standards, Vocal Jazz | Album | ☆☆ |
| Jutta Hipp - Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims (1957) | Cool Jazz | Album | ☆☆ |
| Fred Lowery - Moon Love / Indian Love Call (1957) | Traditional Pop, Easy Listening, Siffleur | Single | ☆☆☆☆ |
| María Sabina - Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico (1957) | Indigenous American Traditional Music, Field Recording, A cappella, Mesoamerican Music | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Maximiliano Valencia & Raymondo Nocameya Lori - Yaqui Dances: The Pascola Music of the Yaqui Indians of Northern Mexico (1957) | Indigenous American Traditional Music, Indigenous North American Music, Mexican Music | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Webster Young - For Lady (1957) | Hard Bop | Album | ☆☆ |
| 李香蘭 - 籣閨寂寂 (1957) | Shidaiqu | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Various Artists - Music of the Ituri Forest (1957) | Mbenga-Mbuti Music | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Dorothy Ashby With Frank Wess - Hip Harp (1958) | Hard Bop, Cool Jazz | Album | ☆☆ |
| Inezita Barroso - Vamos falar de Brasil (1958) | Brazilian Folk Music | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Gloria Levy - Sephardic Folk Songs (1958) | Sephardic Music, Ladino Folksong | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Hal McKusick - Triple Exposure (1958) | Cool Jazz | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Mary O'Hara - Songs of Ireland (1958) | Irish Folk Music | Album | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| The Platters - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / No Matter What You Are (1958) | Doo-Wop, Traditional Pop, Show Tunes, Standards | Single | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Screamin' Jay Hawkins - At Home With Screamin' Jay Hawkins (1958) | Rhythm & Blues | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Igor Stravinsky [New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein] - Le Sacre du printemps (1958) | Modern Classical, Ballet, Orchestral Music | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| גאולה גיל - Holiday Songs of Israel (1958) | Israeli Folk Music, Holiday Music | Album | ☆☆ |
| Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) | Avant-Garde Jazz | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959) | Modal Jazz, Cool Jazz | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Dolores Duran - A Música de Dolores (1959) | Samba-Canção | Compilation | ☆☆☆ |
| João Gilberto - Chega de Saudade (1959) | Bossa Nova | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (1959) | Post-Bop | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Vivien Richman - Vivien Richman Sings Folk Songs of West Pennsylvania (1959) | American Folk Music | Album | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959) | Western | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Frank Sinatra - No One Cares (1959) | Standards, Vocal Jazz | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| Richard Wagner [Wiener Philharmoniker / Georg Solti / George London / Kirsten Flagstad / Set Svanholm / Gustav Neidlinger] - Das Rheingold (1959) | Opera, Romanticism, New German School | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Kitty Wells - Dust on the Bible (1959) | Country Gospel | Album |
☆☆☆☆
You know it's good when it's gospel and I, of all people, think it's great. |
| 唯是震一、唯是靖子、山本邦山 - Music du Japon impérial (1959) | Danmono | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Various Artists - Folk & Classical Music of Korea (1959) | Korean Folk Music, Korean Classical Music | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Les Baxter - The Sacred Idol (1960) | Exotica, Film Score | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1960) | Hard Bop | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| A.T. Gaul - Sounds of Insects (1960) | Insect Sounds, Audio Documentary | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Eddie "One String" Jones & "Poor Traveling" Edward Hazelton - One String Blues (1960) | Blues | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| João Gilberto - O Amor, o Sorriso e a Flor (1960) | Bossa Nova | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Raasche - Jewish Folk Songs of Europe (1960) | Ashkenazi Music, Yiddish Folksong | Album | ☆☆☆ |
| スリー・キャッツ - セクシイ・ムード —桃色の風— (1960) | Vocal Group, Mood Kayou | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| 松尾和子 - 夜のハスキー 松尾和子ムード集 第2集 (1960) | Mood Kayou | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Forrest J. Ackerman & Frank Coe - Music for Robots (1961) | Electronic, Spoken Word, Radio Drama, Space Age Pop, Sound Effects | Album |
☆☆☆☆
Truly bizarre. A one of a kind record if ever there was one. |
| Johann Sebastian Bach [Pierre Fournier] - Sechs Suiten für Violoncello solo BWV 1007-1012 (1961) | Baroque Music, Baroque Suite | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (1961) | Free Jazz | Album | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961) | Delta Blues | Compilation | ☆☆ |
| Alan Mills & Jean Carignan - Songs, Fiddle Tunes and a Folktale From Canada (1961) | Canadian Folk Music | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| George Russell - Ezz-thetics (1961) | Modal Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Album | ☆☆☆☆ |
| Robert Pete Williams - Free Again (1961) | Country Blues | Album | ☆☆ |
| Various Artists - Stereo Dynamics! To Scare Hell Out of Your Neigh-bors (1961) | Easy Listening, Novelty, Light Music | Album |
☆☆
Mystery dash between "neigh" and "bors" continues to be enigmatic. |