1956 in jazz

Jazz in 1956: 120 albums, 14 standards, 52 births and 11 deaths.

Albums released in 1956

Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! 1956 · Capitol Records Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color 1956 · Capitol Records That Old Feeling 1956 · Columbia When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 1956 · Decca Records Home On The Range 1956 A Christmas Sing With Bing - Around The World 1956 · Decca Records Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings 1956 · Verve Blue Hawaii 1956 · Decca Records This Is How I Feel About Jazz 1956 · ABC-Paramount Ella and Louis 1956 · His Master’s Voice Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book 1956 · Verve Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book 1956 · Verve Blue Haze 1956 · Prestige Collectors’ Items 1956 · Prestige Dig 1956 · Prestige At Newport 1956 · Columbia Velvet Mood 1956 · Clef Records Jazz Recital 1956 · Clef Records Lady Sings the Blues 1956 · Clef Records George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess 1956 · Bethlehem Records The Charlie Parker Story 1956 · Savoy Records Brubeck Plays Brubeck 1956 · Columbia In a Romantic Mood 1956 · Verve Music Group Tenderly 1956 · Clef Records Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie 1956 · Columbia It's Love 1956 · RCA Jazz Creations of Dizzy Gillespie 1956 · American Recording Society The Champ 1956 · Savoy Records World Statesman 1956 · Norgran Records Chansons "possibles" et "impossibles" 1956 · Philips Pop Goes The Basie 1956 · Reprise Records The Greatest! Count Basie Plays...Joe Williams Sings Standards 1956 · Verve King of Swing 1956 · Clef Records Basie Roars Again 1956 · Verve Orfeu da Conceição 1956 · Odeon The Benny Goodman Story, Vol. 2 1956 · Decca Records Benny Goodman plays selections from the Benny Goodman story 1956 · Capitol Records The Unique Thelonious Monk 1956 · Riverside Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington 1956 · Riverside Monk 1956 · Prestige Fats Domino Rock and Rollin’ 1956 · Imperial This Is Fats Domino! 1956 · Imperial Rock and Rollin’ With Fats Domino 1956 · London Records Relaxing With Perry Como 1956 · RCA Victor Perry Como Sings Hits From Broadway Shows 1956 · RCA Victor Work Time 1956 · Prestige Sonny Rollins With the Modern Jazz Quartet 1956 · Prestige Sonny Rollins Plus 4 1956 · Prestige Moving Out 1956 · Prestige Sassy 1956 · EmArcy At the Blue Note 1956 · Mercury Records The Brothers 1956 · Original Jazz Classics Blue Rose 1956 · Columbia Playboys 1956 · World Pacific Jazz Composers Workshop 1956 · Savoy Records Pithecanthropus Erectus 1956 · Atlantic The Tatum Touch 1956 · Columbia Henri Salvador alias Henry Cording and His Original Rock and Roll Boys 1956 · Philips Max Roach + 4 1956 · EmArcy Lionel Hampton and His Giants 1956 · Norgran Records In the Land of Hi-Fi 1956 · EmArcy Chet Atkins in 3 Dimensions 1956 · RCA Victor The Trumpet Kings 1956 · Clef Records In Person 1956 · MGM Records Duets 1956 · Atlantic The Grand Master of the Soprano Saxophone and Clarinet 1956 · Columbia Buddy Rich Sings Johnny Mercer 1956 · Verve This One's for Basie 1956 Gospel Train 1956 · Mercury Records In the Land of Hi-Fi 1956 · EmArcy Calendar Girl 1956 · Liberty Lonely Girl 1956 · Liberty The Hawk in Hi-Fi 1956 · RCA Victor In Stockholm 1956 · Live · Verve The Wildest! 1956 · Capitol Records Trapeze 1956 · Columbia Mingus at the Bohemia 1956 · Live · Debut The Progressive Big Band Jazz of Woody Herman 1956 · American Recording Society Roy's Got Rhythm 1956 · EmArcy Around the Horn With Maynard Ferguson 1956 · EmArcy Byrd Jazz 1956 · Transition Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill 1956 · Blue Note Byrd's Word 1956 · Savoy Records Johnny Mathis 1956 · Columbia By Special Request 1956 · Decca Records Blue Moon 1956 · Decca Records The Andrews Sisters in Hi-Fi 1956 · Capitol Records Piano Interpretations By Bud Powell 1956 · Norgran Records Horace Silver Trio 1956 · Blue Note The Boss of the Blues Sings Kansas City Jazz 1956 · Atlantic Intimate Listening 1956 · Verve I Got Rhythm 1956 · Verve The Voice of Your Choice 1956 · Philips One for My Baby 1956 · Columbia Jazz Spectacular 1956 · Columbia Songs by Frankie Laine 1956 · Mercury Records Réunion a Paris 1956 · Swing Playing Some Of The Selections They Played In The Benny Goodman Movie 1956 · Columbia Krupa and Rich 1956 · Clef Records Drummer Man 1956 · Verve 2 Trumpets 1956 · Prestige The Incredible Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Volume 3 1956 · Blue Note A New Sound, a New Star: Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Volume 1 1956 · Blue Note A New Sound, a New Star: Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Volume 2 1956 · Blue Note Inside Hi-Fi 1956 · Atlantic Swingtime 1956 · Swingtime Her Trio Her Quartet 1956 · Storyville Erroll Garner 1956 · Columbia Pick Yourself Up With Anita O’Day 1956 · Verve This Is Anita 1956 Anita 1956 · Verve Kenton in Hi-Fi 1956 · Capitol Records The Bad Seed 1956 · RCA Victor Sophisticated Lady 1956 · Verve Musical Sounds Are The Best Songs 1956 · Coral Records Sings Fred Astaire 1956 · Bethlehem Records Mel Tormé with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette 1956 · Bethlehem Records Cross Section 1956 · Prestige More Harry James In Hi-fi 1956 · Capitol Records Dave Brubeck and Jay & Kai At Newport 1956 · Live · Columbia

Standards written in 1956

Title	Composer	Key	Form	Groove
Waltz For Debby	Bill Evans	F major	ABA · 80	Jazz waltz
Somewhere	Leonard Bernstein	E♭ major	AABAC · 36	Slow swing
Whisper Not	Benny Golson	C minor	AABA · 32	Medium swing
When Sunny Gets Blue	Marvin Fisher	F major	AABA · 32	Ballad
The Party's Over	Styne-Comden-Green	E♭ major	AB · 36	Ballad
I Wish You Love	Charles Trenet	E♭ major	AABA · 32	Medium swing
Fever	Davenport-Cooley	A minor	A · 24	Medium swing
Pannonica	Thelonious Monk	C major	AABA · 33	Ballad
I Could Have Danced All Night	Frederick Loewe	C major	ABCD · 32	Medium swing
A Beautiful Friendship	Donald Kahn	C major	AABA · 32	Medium swing
Hallelujah I Love Her So	Ray Charles	B♭ major	AABA · 44	Medium swing
Wouldn't It Be Loverly	Frederick Loewe	G major	AABA · 34	Medium swing
Tadd's Delight	Tadd Dameron	A♭ major	ABAC · 32	Medium-up swing
Tippin'	Horace Silver	B♭ major	AABA · 32	Medium-up swing