Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk
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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 478 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,544.
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | byuzak | Top 43 Music Albums of 1957 | 3/43 | - |
| 2026 | downandout | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 97/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | PurpleHazel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 64/100 | 7 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best Instrumental or Jazz Albums | 80/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 42 Music Albums of 1958 | 21/42 | 3 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 5 Music Albums of 1958 | 2/5 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1958 | 5/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Hayden | Top 97 Music Albums of 1958 | 30/97 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 68 Music Albums of 1958 | 49/68 | 1 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 14 Music Albums of the 1950s | 5/14 | 14 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 46 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 213 | |||
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/25/2025 01:08 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,616 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/07/2025 11:32 | TonySayers61 | 25,513 | 64/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2025 21:03 |  Norman Bates | 10,179 | 75/100 |
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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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Norman Bates 07/21/2014 09:28 in What album are you listening to right now?Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk comments
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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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