Oh hell yeah!
My interests are jazz and rock. I rarely mix the two, so may go rock for a few weeks and then be done - and then flip back to jazz. Spend maybe 2/3 with jazz and 1/3 with rock, plus select country, blues and classical.
So if I am in a rock phase, I will drill down hard on a certain artist. If I find something I love, I will play the hell out of it, just to try to fully absorb it, what the artist is really trying to communicate, I guess.
My latest rock obsession is an album by Charlie Sexton called Under the Wishing Tree. Just fantastic, timeless and I can’t seem to get enough of it 😃
On the jazz side, my latest “crush” has been John Patton, his later Blue Note stuff, say from 1966 onward. A bunch of this came out on the Rare Groove series. But I just can’t get enough of this stuff, I find it amazingly rich.
Recent crushes have included Trane (a frequent target over the years), Sonny, Hampton Hawes and Teddy Edwards (Contemporary years).
it is funny, my wife picks up on it and will tease me about it, which of course I love 😃