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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.
"Awesome" is a band from Tennessee, self-described as "Part band, part art collective." [1] Although they rejected the "rock band" label, Lane Czaplinski, artistic director of On the Boards remarked, "If they are not rock musicians, there is rock payoff." [2] Czaplinski has compared them to Polyphonic Spree
Blues Traveler performing in 2008. 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.
The Middle Aged Dad Jam Band was born, with the name coming from a descriptor Wain used when he posted one of the earlier sessions on his YouTube page. (Only about half the members actually have ...
Moe (stylized as moe.) is an American jam rock band, formed at the University at Buffalo in 1989. The band members are Rob Derhak (bass, vocals), Al Schnier (guitar, vocals, keyboard), Chuck Garvey (guitar, vocals), Vinnie Amico (), Jim Loughlin and Nate Wilson (keyboard).
Conventional wisdom suggests that you need at least three people to start a band. You might require four or five depending on the sound you’re trying to achieve, and a lot more if you want to ...
The Middle Aged Dad Jam Band (sometimes called MadJam) is an American garage band led by members of the comedy troupe The State. [1] Its principals include vocalist Ken Marino, drummer David Wain, guitarist Frank Barrera, bassist Sweet Teddy P, keyboardist Jon Spurney, trumpeter Jordan Katz, and Wain's son Henry on saxophone."
Formed in 1999, the Portland, Or.,-based duo Nice Nice emulated the spastic rhythms and bugged-out sonics of Warp Records artists such as Squarepusher and Autechre in the context of a live band.