Such Sweet Thunder
by Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

Such Sweet Thunder by Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Year: 1957
Overall rank: 8,486th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 33 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1957 (44th)
Award Top albums of the 1950s (258th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,486th)

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Duke Ellington And His Orchestra bestography

Such Sweet Thunder is ranked 9th best out of 81 albums by Duke Ellington on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Duke Ellington is Ellington At Newport which is ranked number 1039 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,672.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra album bestography « Higher ranked (8,038th)
Anatomy Of A Murder
This album (8,486th)
Such Sweet Thunder
Lower ranked (9,040th) »
Blues In Orbit

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Such Sweet Thunder track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,486th | 1950s rank: 258th | 1957 rank: 44th
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2026 bertranduTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s49/10010
2026 FischmanTop 100 Music Albums of 195731/1004
2026Exist-en-cielTop 45 Music Albums of 195721/453
2025WayneMCUncut The 500 Greatest Albums Of The 1950s (1-100)48/100 -
2025replacementlevelTop 30 Music Albums of 195717/302
2025 TamthebamTop 80 Music Albums of 195736/803
2025 IgtonumamaTop 100 Music Albums of 195796/1000
2025OlliTop 63 Music Albums of 195751/631
2025 djnizziTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s50/10010
2025martinthoTop 37 Music Albums of 195727/371
2025BorderFreeAndrewTop 52 Music Albums of 19576/525
2025 LeonardTop 69 Music Albums of 19573/695
2024arnellarsenTop 61 Music Albums of 195745/611
2023AramisTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s62/1008
2022LosWochosTop 100 Music Albums of 195720/1004
2022 NoisyBeast1950's ~ Wish List9/20 -
2021Steppenwolf66650 overlooked jazz albums by Colin Larkin (2000)23/50 -
2020 CardboardfolderTop 30 Music Albums of 195727/301
2020BorderFreeAndrewTop 100 Music Albums of the 1950s47/10011
2020 StefanR10Top 100 Music Albums of 195753/1002
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 35
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 145
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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 33 votes)
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70/100
 
12/21/2025 23:42 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,85470/100
 
60/100
 
12/12/2025 02:39 Olli  Ratings distribution  6,75563/100
 
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11/04/2025 09:19 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  23,90464/100
 
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07/07/2025 09:57 djnizzi  Ratings distribution  2,85980/100
 
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02/09/2025 19:58 Igtonumama  Ratings distribution  10,79163/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.7/100, a mean average of 71.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.

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2. Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
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