Live albums made up entirely of previously unreleased material (no bootlegs)?

That could be another whole thread in itself

 

Portishead?

 

Every Jandek live album.

 

What do you mean? Certainly not the Roseland album.

 

The Black Crowes - Before The Frost...Until The Freeze

 

ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition comes to mind. Obviously most of it wasn't new music as such but it was all new for them.

 

The Nugent one was the first one I thought of.

 

What about Roxy and Elsewhere? Does that one have any previously released material?

 

Frank Zappa's Broadway The Hard Way.
But only the vinyl / cassette version - not the CD which has loads of extra tracks including some new versions of older songs. The original 45 minute album is all new Zappa material - (although a 1973 version of "Dickie's Such An *******" appears on the sampler promo for You Can't Do That Onstage Anymore which came out around the same time, it wasn't included on the series properly until Vol 3).
Staying with Frank, wouldn't Sheik Yerbouti count? Apart from a couple of spoken word interludes it's all live (though heavily overdubbed at times) and I don't think that any of these tracks had been officially released until Sheik Yerbouti came out.

 

Bad luck, it does - "Trouble Every Day" and "Orange County".
Similar problem with the original double vinyl of Zappa In New York. All new apart from "Sofa" and "Big Leg Emma".

 

Also Rust Never Sleeps, right?

John Coltrane had one: Live at the Village Vanguard. His other major authorized live release, Live at Birdland, had a couple of studio tracks, and also redid "I Want to Talk About You" which he had recorded previously.

McCoy Tyner's Enlightenment is all new original material.

Same with Sonny Rollins's The Cutting Edge (a few covers, none previously recorded by Sonny, though 1 had appeared on an unauthorized live album a few years prior).

 

Do you mean previously unreleased by anyone or just by the artist who made the album? If it's the latter, Jackson Browne's Running On Empty qualifies, as does Joan Baez in Concert, volumes 1 and 2.
Also:
Mighty Day on Campus - Chad Mitchell Trio
At the Bitter End - Chad Mitchell Trio
Lullabies, Legends, and Lies - Bobby Bare
Friends and Love - Chuck Mangione
Every live Keith Jarrett album consisting of piano improvisations

 

John Cale's 1979 album Sabotage was all live and all new (there is a cover of "Walkin' The Dog", but there's no prior Cale version of this).

 

Rust Never Sleeps is one I had thought of, too, but two of the tracks, "Pocahontas" and "Sail Away" are studio songs.

 

What about REM's brilliant New Adventures In Hi-Fi? I believe all the songs were taped live at soundchecks (though thinking about it, there might have been a couple of studio tracks too... so that might disqualify it...)

 

little feat - waiting for Columbus
Jefferson airplane - bless it's pointed little head

 

His quartets in the 70's also had live albums with no previously released material (Fort Yawuh, Nude Ants).

 

Strictly speaking it has one studio track, "Rubber Shirt."

 

I was there.

 

Sigh...
Why does Frank have to make everything so complicated!

 

Miles Davis had a few in the 70's: Dark Magus, Agharta, Pangea

 

Ten Years After's Undead (1968, 2nd album).

 

Unless it includes live versions of their very earliest singles, Hüsker Dü's Land Speed Records, by necessity as it was their very first album.

 

Agharta did have two previously released tunes "Maiysha" and "Right Off" (retitled "Theme From Jack Johnson").

 

Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken
New originals and a few covers.