Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk
by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk
Year: 1958
Overall rank: 6,246th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 41 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1958 (42nd)
Award Top albums of of the 1950s (186th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,246th)

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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk bestography

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk is ranked 7th best out of 66 albums by Art Blakey on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Art Blakey is Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers which is ranked number 482 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,528.

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk album bestography « Higher ranked (6,172nd)
The Big Beat
This album (6,246th)
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk
Lower ranked (7,062nd) »
The Jazz Messengers

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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk rankings

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,246th | 1950s rank: 186th | 1958 rank: 42nd  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 43 minutes ago).
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2026 Norman BatesTop 38 Music Albums of 19586/384
2026bonnequestionTop 14 Music Albums of the 1950s5/1414
2026downandoutTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s97/1001
2026 HaydenTop 98 Music Albums of 195830/984
2026bonnequestionBest albums from '55 to '6412/40 -
2026 Patman360Top 42 Music Albums of 195821/423
2026PurpleHazelTop 31 Music Albums of 195721/31 -
2026 FischmanTop 100 Music Albums of 19585/1005
2026byuzakTop 43 Music Albums of 19573/43 -
2026bonnequestionBest Instrumental or Jazz Albums79/100 -
2026PurpleHazelTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s64/1007
2026Exist-en-cielTop 55 Music Albums of 195844/551
2026 LeonardTop 68 Music Albums of 195849/681
2026bonnequestionTop 5 Music Albums of 19582/54
2026 bertranduTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s54/1009
2025WayneMCTop 53 Music Albums of the 1950s13/5315
2025mostlymorTop 20 Music Albums of 195818/201
2025stangetzawayTop 25 Music Albums of 195810/253
2025BorderFreeAndrewTop 58 Music Albums of 195824/583
2025stangetzawayTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s56/1009
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 46
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 213
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 41 votes)
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12/25/2025 01:08 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  15,15970/100
 
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11/07/2025 11:32 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  25,07164/100
 
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10/12/2024 12:41 Imaybeparanoid  Ratings distribution  7,39671/100

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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.


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Blakey and Monk go together perfectly. The melodic playing of Blakey, the percussive playing of Monk, the soulful funkiness of Johnny Griffin, they're all working on the same bebop wavelength--high energy music, but with so much space and silence left in. The interplay between the musicians here is terrific--no matter what Miles said, Monk is brilliant at comping behind soloists, and his way of doing it is similar to Blakey's style. This is an all-time great jazz album.

And somebody gave this a 30/100 just four days ago...good lord.
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