2017 finished with an addiction to jazz where I was delving into classic studio albums as well as live recordings. I don’t know how long it will last but Jazz is all I’m interested in at the start of January.
The first album of the year always has special meaning to me and in 2018, that honour went to Thelonious Monk Live At The IT Club.
During the month, I strayed briefly away from jazz by playing some of my favourite live albums and I enjoyed the change of each immensely but none of them made me want to contemplate switching the main focus of my interest this month.
Blues
- Otis Rush All Your Love I Miss Loving
- Buddy Guy Drinkin’ TNT & Smokin’ Dynamite
Blues Rock
- Climax Blues Band World Tour 1976
Classic Rock
- Sting Bring On The Night
- Deacon Blue Live At The Glasgow Barrowlands
Folk
- John Renbourn Group Live In America
Hard Rock
- The Who The Blues To The Bush
- Thin Lizzy Live And Dangerous
Jazz
- Thelonious Monk Live At The IT Club
- Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall
- Thelonious Monk Misterioso
- Thelonious Monk In Action
- Thelonious Monk At The Blackhawk
- Thelonious Monk Orchestra At Town Hall
- Thelonious Monk The Nonet Live
- Thelonious Monk Big Band & Quartet Live In Concert
- Charles Mingus Mingus At The Bohemia
- Charles Mingus The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach
- Charles Mingus Cornell 1964
- Charles Mingus Mingus At Antibes
- Charles Mingus The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus
- Charles Mingus Mingus In Wonderland
- Eric Dolphy Live At The Five Spot Complete
- Eric Dolphy The Illinois Concert
- Eric Dolphy Last Date
- Duke Ellington Fargo 1940
- Duke Ellington Live At The Blue Note
- Mingus Big Band Live In Time
- Mingus Big Band Lie At Jazz Standard
- Shelly Manne Live At The Black Hawk
- Miles Davis In Person Friday Night At The Black Hawk
- John Coltrane Afro Blue Impressions
- Horace Silver Doin’ The Thing Live At The Village Gate
- Art Blakey At The Cafe Bohemia Vol 1
- Art Blakey At The Cafe Bohemia Vol 2
- Art Blakey A Night At Birdland Vol 1
- Art Blakey A Night At Birdland Vol 2
Power Pop
- Raspberries Pop Art Live
Prog Rock
- Traffic The Last Great Traffic Jam
- Genesis Seconds Out
R&B
- Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Singer Songwriters
- Paul Simon Live In New York City
Southern Rock
- The Cate Brothers Cate Brothers Live
My interest in jazz has also extended into studio albums this month including:
- Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um
- Charles Mingus Blues & Roots
- Charles Mingus The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
- Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
- Charles Mingus Mingus Moves
- Thelonious Monk Monk’s Dream
- Thelonious Monk The Genius Of Modern Music Vol 1
- Thelonious Monk The Genius Of Modern Music Vol 2
- Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser
- Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners
- Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch
- Duke Ellington Masterpeices
- Duke Ellington And His Mother Called Him Bill
- Roland Kirk I Talk With The Spirits