Reviews for albums released in 1960 can be found below. The reviews are categorized by genre and alphabetical order.
- Top 25 Albums of 1960
Jazz
- Kansas City Suite (Count Basie) A-
- True Blue (Tina Brooks)
- Change of the Century (Ornette Coleman) A
- Giant Steps (John Coltrane) A
- Sketches of Spain (Miles Davis) A
- Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy)
- Blues in Orbit (Duke Ellington)
- The Nutcracker Suite (Duke Ellington)
- Piano in the Background (Duke Ellington)
- Portrait in Jazz (Bill Evans) A
- A Portrait of Duke Ellington (Dizzy Gillespie)
- Gillespiana (Dizzy Gillespie)
- Open Sesame (Freddie Hubbard)
- Blues & Roots (Charles Mingus) A
- Mingus Dynasty (Charles Mingus) A-
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Charles Mingus) A
- Soul Station (Hank Mobley) A-
- European Concert (The Modern Jazz Quartet)
- Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk (Thelonious Monk) A-
- The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (Wes Montgomery) A-
- We Insist! (Max Roach)
- Jazz in the Space Age (George Russell)
- Crazy! Baby (Jimmy Smith)
- Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson)
Rock and Roll
- Rockin’ at the Hops (Chuck Berry)
- Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger (Bo Diddley)
- The Sound of Fury (Billy Fury) B+
- Rockin’ with Wanda (Wanda Jackson) A-
- Elvis Is Back! (Elvis Presley) A
- His Hand in Mine (Elvis Presley) B+
- Me and My Shadows (Cliff Richard) B+
Swing/Pop
- Bing & Satchmo (Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong)
- No Cover, No Minimum (Billy Eckstine) A-
- Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife (Ella Fitzgerald)
- Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (Ella Fitzgerald)
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph (Ella Fitzgerald)
- Nice ‘n’ Easy (Frank Sinatra) A
- Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley (Mel Tormé) A-
Rhythm & Blues
- Ray Charles in Person (Ray Charles) A-
- At Last! (Etta James)
- Otis Spann Is the Blues (Otis Spann)
- Muddy Waters at Newport 1960 (Muddy Waters)
Country/Folk
- Joan Baez (Joan Baez)
- Now, There Was a Song! (Johnny Cash)
- Ride This Train (Johnny Cash)
- Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams (Johnny Cash)
- It’s Everyly Time (The Everly Brothers)
World
- Drums of Passion (Babatunde Olatunji)
- Sabroso! (Mongo Santamaria)
Classical
- Classical Check-Up
- Jean Barraqué
- Luciano Berio
- Benjamin Britten
- Elliott Carter
- Henry Cowell
- György Ligeti
- Olivier Messiaen
- Krzyszstof Penderecki
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Igor Stravinsky
- William Walton
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