Top-rated albums of 1953

Listed below are the top-rated albums of 1953 as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members!
(To qualify for this chart, an album must have had at least 10 member ratings.)

Rank	Album	Band
1.	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
	Year of Release: 1953 Appears in: 7 charts Rank in 1953: 3 Rank Score: 194 Rank in 1950s 55 Overall Rank: 3,934 Download / Buy Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers on MP3: No MP3 preview available.
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2.	Last Sessions	Leadbelly
	Year of Release: 1953 Appears in: 10 charts Rank in 1953: 7 Rank Score: 122 Rank in 1950s 90 Overall Rank: 5,701 Download / Buy Last Sessions on MP3:
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3.	Jazz At Massey Hall	The Quintet
	Year of Release: 1953 Appears in: 8 charts Rank in 1953: 4 Rank Score: 175 Rank in 1950s 62 Overall Rank: 4,286 Download / Buy Jazz At Massey Hall on MP3:
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4.	Black Coffee	Peggy Lee
	Year of Release: 1953 Appears in: 9 charts Rank in 1953: 2 Rank Score: 232 Rank in 1950s 49 Overall Rank: 3,411 Download / Buy Black Coffee on MP3:
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5.	Jazz At Oberlin	The Dave Brubeck Quartet
	Year of Release: 1953 Appears in: 6 charts Rank in 1953: 5 Rank Score: 161 Rank in 1950s 66 Overall Rank: 4,593 Download / Buy Jazz At Oberlin on MP3:
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6.	Ellington Uptown	Duke Ellington
	Year of Release: 1953 Appears in: 20 charts Rank in 1953: 1 Rank Score: 237 Rank in 1950s 48 Overall Rank: 3,350 Download / Buy Ellington Uptown on MP3: No MP3 preview available.
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The average rating is a Bayesian average, calculated as follows:
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AV

where:
av = mean average rating an album has currently received.
n = number of ratings an album has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an album to appear in the 'top-rated' chart (currently 20).
AV = the site mean average rating for an album (currently 76/100).