Acclaimed Music Top 20 Albums of 1962

Country and Western Music?

This is a kind of "history of music" project, based on aggregated charts found on Acclaimed Music. It features Top 20 playlists for decades 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and yearly Top 20 playlists (both songs and albums) for each year from 1960 to 2010. It should be a weekly project (though I'm not very good in being consistent with weekly projects). To keep track of it, I made the Acclaimed History of Music page.

Classic jazz rules this 1962 chart. The playlist include some absolute masters, like John Coltrane (three albums), the "brazilian" Stan Getz, the "mexican" Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, Ornette Coleman and many others. #1, though, is for The Genius. Enjoy!

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TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 1962
Source: Acclaimed Music
Missing from Spotify: 3 albums
(legenda: the number preceding the artist name is the ranking in Acclaimed Music Top 3000 chart)

1 (246) Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
- (446) Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
2 (841) John Coltrane - Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard
3 (1010) Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
4 (1011) Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods/New Tijuana Moods
5 (1123) Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach - Money Jungle
6 (1250) Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
7 (1378) Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
8 (1431) Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off
9 (1434) Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions
10 (1476) Dexter Gordon - Go
11 (1844) John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays the Blues
-- (1908) Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
12 (2033) Bill Evans and Jim Hall - Undercurrent
13 (2037) Wes Montgomery - Full House: Recorded 'Live' at Tsubo - Berkeley, California
14 (2092) Benny Carter - Further Definitions
15 (2130) Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volume Two
-- (2176) Roy Haynes - Out of the Afternoon
16 (2196) Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery - Bags Meets Wes!
17 (2300) Ornette Coleman - Ornette on Tenor
18 (2342) Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
19 (2399) John Coltrane - Olé Coltrane
20 (2459) Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley - Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley

Listen to it on Spotify:
Mammoth (full albums): HTTP, URI. (SR0679)
Lite (3 tracks each album): HTTP, URI. (SR0680)

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