Reviews for albums released in 1955 can be found below. The album reviews are categorized by genre and alphabetical order.
Jazz
- Satch Plays Fats: A Tribute to the Immortal Fats Waller (Louis Armstrong) A-
- Clifford Brown with Strings (Clifford Brown) A
- Brown and Roach Incorporated (Clifford Brown & Max Roach) A-
- Study in Brown (Clifford Brown & Max Roach) A
- Blue Moods (Miles Davis) A
- Ellington ’55 (Duke Ellington) B+
- Concert by the Sea (Erroll Garner) A
- West Coast Jazz (Stan Getz) A-
- Diz and Getz (Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz) A-
- Hamp and Getz (Lionel Hampton & Stan Getz) A-
- Contemporary Concepts (Stan Kenton) B+
- The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus (Charles Mingus) B+
- Concorde (The Modern Jazz Quartet) A-
- Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Thelonious Monk) A
- Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington (Thelonious Monk) A-
- In a Romantic Mood (Oscar Peterson) A
Swing/Pop
- Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (Count Basie & Joe Williams) A-
- Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones (The Four Freshman) B
- Duet (Stan Kenton & June Christy) A-
- Julie is Her Name (Julie London) A-
- Helen Merrill (Helen Merrill) A-
- In the Wee Small Hours (Frank Sinatra) A+
- Sarah Vaughan (Sarah Vaughan) A-
- Dinah Jams (Dinah Washington) A
Rock and Roll
- Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley & His Comets) B
Country
- Les and Mary (Les Paul & Mary Ford) A-
Classical
- Classical Check-Up
- Pierre Boulez
- George Enescu
- Alan Hovhaness
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Ernst Toch
- Iannis Xenakis
Foreign
- Dinner in Caracas (Aldemaro Romero) A-
The Music of 1955
