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A jam band is a musical group whose concerts and live albums substantially feature improvisational "jamming". Typically, jam bands will play variations of pre-existing songs, extending them to improvise over chord patterns or rhythmic grooves .
Jamming in dance culture is a kind of informal show-off during a social dance party. Dancers clear a circle (jam circle or dance circle) and dancers or dance couples take turns showing their best tricks while the remaining dancers cheer the jammers on. While some jam circles are staged, most form organically and spontaneously when the energy ...
Live at the 100 Club is a live album by The Jam, recorded on 11 September 1977 at London's 100 Club. The album was released in 2015 on CD as part of the box set Fire and Skill – The Jam Live , [ 1 ] and in 2016 as a double album on vinyl.
The discography of the British band the Jam consists of 6 studio albums, 5 live albums, 8 compilation albums, 5 box sets, 6 videos, 3 extended plays, 18 singles, and 3 B-sides. The band, who formed in 1972, didn't debut until five years later in 1977, when they released their debut studio album In the City , which entered the UK Albums Chart at ...
The Jam regularly played the song live on their 'Trans-Global Unity Express' world tour between March and June 1982, where it always segued into a brief cover of Sam Cooke's 1960 single 'Chain Gang'. [3] In late 2012, Paul Weller again began performing the song live (at a much slower pace and without the 'Chain Gang' medley).
Fire And Skill – The Jam Live is a six-disc collection of live performances by The Jam, released in 2015, and incorporating six previously unreleased live concerts by the band between 1977 and 1982. [1] The title of the collection refers to a motto inscribed on Paul Weller's guitar amplifier.
"Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" is a single by the Jam, and was the second single from their third album, All Mod Cons. Released in October 1978, it reached No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart. [1] The single was backed by a cover version of the Who's song "So Sad About Us", and the song "The Night", written by Bruce Foxton.
After the Jam broke up in 1982, Foxton pursued a brief solo career and released his debut studio album, Touch Sensitive, in 1984. The album's single " Freak " became a UK Top 20 hit in 1983. He had other minor UK hits in 1983 and 1984 with the singles "This Is the Way" and "It Makes Me Wonder", [ 5 ] and played in several bands, including Sharp ...