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Bluegrass music jam at the Delafield Fish Hatchery in Delafield, Wisconsin on February 8, 2009. A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp over tunes, drones, songs, and chord progressions.
A Cajun music "jam session". A music session is a social gathering of musicians and singers who perform music in a relatively informal context. [1] Much of the music performed at such events is traditional music for the area, popular songs and other well-known tunes.
jam or jam session. In jazz, blues, rock, or related genres, an informal performance of improvised solos over well-known standard compositions (e.g. a blues progression or a jazz standard). jazz standard or standard. A well-known composition from the jazz repertoire which is widely played and recorded.
Typically, jam bands will play variations of pre-existing songs, extending them to improvise over chord patterns or rhythmic grooves. Jam bands are known for having a very fluid structure, playing long sets of music which often cross genre boundaries, varying their nightly setlists, and segueing from one song into another without a break. [1]
The following is a list of notable jam bands, or bands on the jam-band circuit. Jam band performances often feature extended musical improvisation (" jams ") over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns , and long sets of music that cross genre boundaries.
Jam music may refer to: Jam band; Jam session, an impromptu musical performance; Jam! Music, a Canadian website This page was last edited on 31 ...
"Tanga" began as a spontaneous descarga (Cuban jam session), with jazz solos superimposed on top. [144] This was the birth of Afro-Cuban jazz. The use of clave brought the African timeline, or key pattern, into jazz. Music organized around key patterns convey a two-celled (binary) structure, which is a complex level of African cross-rhythm. [145]
A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp on tunes, songs and chord progressions. Jam session may also refer to: Jam Session, a short film featuring Duke Ellington; Jam Session, an American film by Charles Barton