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71-745: The event was organized by Walther Productions and included mostly jam and folk acts, though the festival had expanded its musical repertoire to include reggae, hip-hop fusion, bluegrass, funk, and rock. The 15th Annual festival was held July 14–17, 2011 on Marvin's Mountain Top in Masontown , West Virginia. The lineup had included artists such as Furthur , Derek Trucks , Railroad Earth , Keller Williams , The Flaming Lips , Phil Lesh and Friends , Widespread Panic , Umphrey's McGee , The String Cheese Incident , Les Claypool , Ratdog , Moe. , Lotus , Bassnectar , Old Crow Medicine Show , The New Deal, Grace Potter and

142-554: A digital recording of the concert and download it to a USB flash drive or another portable digital storage device. Some bands offer concert recordings made available for purchase on compact disc or flash drive shortly after the show ends. Most major music festivals also offer digital live recordings at the event. Several vendors such as Instant Live by Live Nation and Aderra offer this remote recording service for instant delivery. Although these shows are freely traded in digital format, "official" versions are collected by fans for

213-399: A "cultural phenomenon, followed across the country from summer shed to summer shed by thousands of new-generation hippies and hacky-sack enthusiasts, and spawning a new wave of bands oriented around group improvisation and super-extended grooves." Another term for "jam band music" used in the 1990s was "Bay Rock". It was coined by the founder of Relix magazine, Les Kippel, as a reference to

284-579: A 24-minute version of "Whipping Post", and a 20-minute version of Willie Cobbs ' " You Don't Love Me ". The British space rock band Hawkwind were also progenitors of the jam band sound. In the mid-1980s and early-1990s, the bands Phish , moe. , Edie Brickell & New Bohemians , Blues Traveler , Ozric Tentacles , Widespread Panic , Dave Matthews Band , Bela Fleck and the Flecktones , Spin Doctors , The String Cheese Incident , Col. Bruce Hampton and

355-417: A Jam Band? Please cast aside any preconceptions that this phrase may evoke. The term, as it is commonly used today, references a rich palette of sounds and textures. These groups share a collective penchant for improvisation, a commitment to songcraft, and a propensity to cross genre boundaries, drawing from a range of traditions including blues, bluegrass, funk, jazz, rock, psychedelia, and even techno. Besides,

426-648: A break. The jam-band musical style, spawned from the psychedelic rock movement of the 1960s, was a feature of nationally famed groups such as the Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers Band , whose regular touring schedules continued into the 1990s. The style influenced a new wave of jam bands who toured the United States with jam band-style concerts in the late 1980s and early '90s, such as Phish , Blues Traveler , Widespread Panic , Dave Matthews Band , The String Cheese Incident , moe. , and Col. Bruce Hampton and

497-461: A different experience every night, with varying set lists , evolving songs, creative segues, and extended instrumentals. Some of their fans, known as "Deadheads", followed their tours from city to city, and a hippie subculture developed around the band, complete with psychedelic clothes, a black market in concert-related products, and drug paraphernalia. The band toured regularly for most of three decades. The Allman Brothers Band were also considered

568-535: A great diversity of musical genres. A 2000-era genre of jam-band music uses live improvisation that mimics the sounds of DJs and electronica musicians and has been dubbed "jamtronica". Progressive bluegrass , progressive rock and jazz fusion are also quite popular among fans of jam bands. In the early 2000s, the jam scene helped influence the touring patterns and approach of a new wave of indie bands like Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Interpol, and The National. Hundreds of jam-based festivals and concerts are held throughout

639-418: A hit song on MTV in 1987. They eventually began playing football stadiums. Widespread Panic originated when Michael Houser and John Bell started playing together. In 1986, after Todd Nance and Dave Schools joined them, the band played their first show as "Widespread Panic". Blues Traveler and Spin Doctors - formed and fronted by school friends John Popper and Chris Barron , respectively - regularly performed at

710-951: A jam band, and one which makes for sought-after tapes. By the 2000s, as internet downloading of MP3 music files became common, the downloading of jam-band songs became an extension of the cassette taping trend. Archived jam-band downloads are available at various websites, the most prominent ones being etree and the Live Music Archive , which is part of the Internet Archive . Some jam bands distribute their latest shows online. Bands such as Phish , Widespread Panic , The String Cheese Incident , Gov't Mule , əkoostik hookah , Umphrey's McGee , Dopapod , Lotus , and The Disco Biscuits have offered digital downloads within days, or sometimes hours, of concerts. The Grateful Dead have begun to offer live releases from their archives for download. Some concert venues offer kiosks where fans may purchase

781-596: A jam band, particularly during the Duane Allman era. Songs such as " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed " and " Whipping Post ", which were 5–7 minutes long on their studio albums, became 20-minute jams at concerts. The Allmans performed a 34-minute jam with the Grateful Dead in 1970. Their 1972 album Eat A Peach included " Mountain Jam ", a 34-minute instrumental that was recorded live. The 1971 live album At Fillmore East featured

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852-528: A jam band. Dave Schools of Widespread Panic said in an interview, "We want to shake free of that name, jam band. The jam band thing used to be the Grateful Dead bands. We shook free of that as hard as we could back in 1989. Then Blues Traveler came on the scene. All together, we created the H.O.R.D.E. tour, which focused a lot of attention on jam bands. Then someone coined the term jam bands. I'd rather just be called retro. When you pigeonhole something, you limit its ability to grow and change." An example of

923-421: A jam session coordinator or host acts as a " gatekeeper " so that appropriate-level performers take the stage to sophisticated improvised recording sessions by professionals which are intended to be broadcast live on radio or TV or edited and released to the public. One source for the phrase "jam session" came about in the 1920s when white and black musicians would congregate after their regular paying gigs to play

994-470: A link that would not only unite bands themselves but also a very large community around them." By the late 1990s, the term jam band became applied retroactively in jam band circles for bands such as Cream , who for decades were categorized as a "power-trio" and "psychedelic rock", and who when active were largely unrelated to the Grateful Dead, but whose live concerts usually featured several extended collective improvisations. In his October 2000 column on

1065-406: A prior-era band that gained the label "jam band" through an active affiliation with the 1990s jam band culture is The Allman Brothers Band . However, Gregg Allman has been quoted as recently as 2003 by his fellow band member Butch Trucks in stating that rather than being a jam band, The Allman Brothers are "a band that jams". Although Trucks suggests that this is only a difference of semantics,

1136-1191: A request to Caroline County, VA to ask for a change in a music ordinance. He wanted to move the annual show from West Virginia to Moss Neck Manor, a 1,200-acre site in Port Royal, VA off U.S. 17 owned by the Silver Cos. The festival would feature 14 to 16 hours of music a day, twice as much as the county allows. Thursday July 14 Friday July 15 Saturday July 16 Sunday July 17 Thursday July 8 Friday July 9 Saturday July 10 Sunday July 11 Thursday July 9 Friday July 10 Saturday July 11 Sunday July 12 Thursday July 10 Friday July 11 Saturday July 12 Sunday July 13 Thursday, July 14 Friday, July 15 Saturday, July 16 Sunday, July 17 Thursday, July 8 Friday, July 9 Saturday, July 10 Sunday, July 11 Thursday, May 15 Friday, May 16 Saturday, May 17 Tweener sets Late Night sets Thursday, May 16 Friday, May 17 Saturday, May 18 Jam band A jam band

1207-582: A shift in fan base), Manchester, TN ; The Warfield Theater , San Francisco, California; Higher Ground , Burlington, Vermont , Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Garrettsville, Ohio ; and the Jam in the Dam in Amsterdam . One way to see many jam bands in one place is by going to a jam band-oriented music festival. Some popular festivals that include jam bands are: Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee; Gathering of

1278-489: A taper's section, segregating these people with their equipment into one area of the venue to keep them from interfering with other concertgoers. Improvisational jam bands perform their songs differently at each performance and generally have no fixed setlist, to encourage fans to see them on multiple nights. Some fans collect versions of their favourite songs and actively debate which is the best version of any particular song, keeping lists of notable versions. This may extend to

1349-493: A tradition of jamming. Bluegrass jams happen in the parking lots and campgrounds of bluegrass festivals , in music stores, bars and restaurants and on stages. Bluegrass jams tend to be segregated by the skill level of the players. Slow jams for beginners provide an entry point. Open bluegrass jams are open to all comers, but the players in an open jam will expect a certain level of proficiency from participants. The abilities to hear chord progressions and keep time are essential, and

1420-443: 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 . 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

1491-633: Is known as "jamtronica" or "livetronica" (a portmanteau of the terms " live music " and " electronica "). Bands includes The Disco Biscuits , STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), and The New Deal (although STS9 guitarist Hunter Brown has expressed basic reservations about the "livetronica" label, explaining that "it's a really vague term to describe a lot of bands", he did cite Tortoise as stylistic precursors). Entertainment Weekly also identified Prefuse 73 , VHS or Beta , Lotus , Signal Path, MFA, and Midwest Product as notable livetronica groups. The contemporary jam scene has grown to encompass bands from

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1562-583: Is to improvise music without extensive preparation or predefined arrangements . Original jam sessions, also called "free flow sessions," are often used by musicians to develop new material (music) and find suitable arrangements . Both styles can be used simply as a social gathering and communal practice session. Jam sessions may be based upon existing songs or forms, may be loosely based on an agreed chord progression or chart suggested by one participant, or may be wholly improvisational. Jam sessions can range from very loose gatherings of amateurs to evenings where

1633-602: The Allman Brothers Band would feature live improvised performances that could last 10 to 20 minutes or longer. In this context, jams are not casual congregations, but rather improvised portions of rehearsed public set lists. The Grateful Dead are often credited as being the first jam band, dating back as early as 1965 providing freeform improvisation at the Acid Tests put on by the Merry Pranksters . Other bands in

1704-491: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) seems to call most fans pirates intent on stealing their music. Schultz said that the key concept here is reciprocity: Fans treated with generosity and respect by jam bands tend to be more loyal even to the point of helping enforce the copyrights the jam bands claim. Fans similarly reciprocate the hostility they perceive in the anti-piracy lawsuits filed by

1775-449: The 1960s San Francisco Bay Area music scene, which included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape , among many others. By the late 1990s, the types of jam bands had grown so that the term became quite broad, as exemplified by the definition written by Dean Budnick, which appeared in the program for the first annual Jammy Awards in 2000 (Budnick co-created the show with Wetlands Preserve owner Peter Shapiro). What Is

1846-404: The 1980s, the Grateful Dead 's fan base included a large core group that followed their tours from show to show. These fans (known as " Deadheads ") developed a sense of community and loyalty. In the 1990s, the band Phish began to attract this fan base. The term "jam band" was first used regarding Grateful Dead and Phish culture in the 1980s. In 1998, Dean Budnick wrote the first book devoted to

1917-586: The Aquarium Rescue Unit , Medeski Martin & Wood , The Black Crowes , Leftover Salmon , The Samples , Galactic , əkoostik hookah , and Lettuce , began touring with jam band-style concerts. Their popularity increased in the early 1990s. Phish formed in 1983 at the University of Vermont. They solidified their lineup in 1985 and began their career with a few Grateful Dead songs in their repertoire. The Grateful Dead released " Touch of Grey " which became

1988-518: The Aquarium Rescue Unit . The jam-band movement gained mainstream exposure in the US in the early 1990s with the rise of Phish and the Dave Matthews Band as major touring acts and the dissolution of the Grateful Dead following Jerry Garcia 's death in 1995. Jam-band artists often perform a wide variety of genres. While the Grateful Dead is categorized as psychedelic rock, by the 1990s the term "jam band"

2059-485: The Grateful Dead have continued touring since 1995 in many different iterations, such as The Dead , Bob Weir & Ratdog , Phil Lesh and Friends , Donna Jean Godchaux Band , 7 Walkers , Furthur , and Dead & Company . Members of other jam bands often perform together in various configurations and supergroups, such as Tedeschi Trucks Band , Oysterhead , and Dave Matthews & Friends . A consequence of Phish's repopularization of large-scale festivals can be seen in

2130-425: The Grateful Dead or Phish. A feature of the jam-band scene is fan recording of live concerts. While the mainstream music industry often views fan taping as "illegal bootlegging ", jam bands often allow their fans to make tapes or recordings of their live shows. Fans trade recordings and collect recordings of different live shows, because improvisational jam bands play their songs differently at each performance. In

2201-450: The Grateful Dead were two of the first bands to have a Usenet newsgroup. Many new bands were formed, which were the first to actually be called "jam bands", including ekoostik hookah , Dispatch , Gov't Mule , Leftover Salmon , moe. , Rusted Root and The String Cheese Incident . During the summer of 1995 Garcia died. The surviving members of the Grateful Dead formed The Other Ones (appearing as " The Dead " for some tours). During

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2272-570: The Nocturnals , Yonder Mountain String Band , Dark Star Orchestra , and Leftover Salmon . The festival generally featured three performance spaces: the main stage, flanked by a smaller stage, and the Grassroots stage located by Shakedown Street. The two main stages in the concert area operated with no overlapping sets, allowing festival-goers the unique opportunity to see all of the music scheduled at

2343-533: The Three Deuces: I think the term 'jam session' originated right in that cellar. Long before that, of course, the colored boys used to get together and play for kicks, but those were mostly private sessions, strictly for professional musicians, and the idea was usually to try to cut each other, each one trying to outdo the others and prove himself best. Those impromptu concerts of theirs were generally known as 'cuttin' contests.' Our idea…was to play together, to make

2414-462: The US. The Bonnaroo Music Festival , held each June in Tennessee, continues to provide a highly visible forum for jam acts, although this festival has attracted many different genres during its decade-plus history. As with other music scenes, devout fans of jam bands are known to travel from festival to festival, often developing a family-like community. These committed fan groups are often referred to by

2485-1105: The Vibes in Bridgeport, Connecticut; Rothbury Festival in Rothbury, Michigan (now known as Electric Forest Festival ); High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, California; All Good Music Festival ; The Peach Music Festival in Scranton, PA; Mountain Jam (festival) in Hunter Mt, New York; Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado; Lockn' Festival in Arrington, Virginia; The Werk Out Music Festival in Thornville, Ohio; and Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, Illinois. Law professor Mark Schultz found that jam bands had fundamentally different business models from

2556-487: The ability to play improvised leads that contain at least a suggestion of the melody is desirable. Jams that require advanced musical proficiency are generally private events, by invitation only. Members of the Soulquarians , an alternative-minded black music collective active from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, held jam sessions while recording their respective albums at Electric Lady Studios . This began in 1997 when

2627-837: The accident, with two friends severely injured—Yen Ton and Elizabeth Doran, both of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina . Lewin, of Cape Charles, Virginia , lost control of his pickup but blames parking and security agents who guided him to the "steep, grassy slope near tents and other vehicles." Lewin, Ton, Doran and Kim Miller sued campground operator Marvin’s Mountaintop LLC; Walther Productions; California-based Tobin Productions; M&M Parking Inc. of Pennsylvania; and three security providers, Event Staffing Inc. of Virginia, National Event Services, Inc. of New Hampshire , and Axis Security Inc. of Tennessee. Some principals are being sued as individuals; all have denied culpability, filing counterclaims against each other. On October 13, 2011, Tim Walther sent

2698-612: The attendance levels of Phish, who themselves had never attained the peak attendance of the Grateful Dead. The long-term fragmentation of the jam-band scene has been a continuing process. Phish held a reunion concert in March 2009 at Hampton Coliseum , and again became one of the top US concert draws. The band were one of the highest-grossing touring musical artists of both 2016 and 2017, and their 13-night " Baker's Dozen " run at Madison Square Garden in 2017 grossed $ 15 million. Many of today's jam bands have brought widely varied genres into

2769-468: The classic rock sound mixed with exploratory jams. Members of the Grateful Dead have continued touring in many different configurations as The Dead , Bob Weir & Ratdog , Phil Lesh and Friends , 7 Walkers , Furthur , and Dead & Company . The British Intelligent dance music (IDM) band Autechre became known as "the first digital jam band" after their 4-hour long 2016 album set elseq 1-5 . Blending jam-band elements with those of electronica

2840-542: The collective's associated musicians, including rapper Mos Def 's Black on Both Sides (1999), singer Res 's How I Do (2001), and rapper Talib Kweli 's Quality (2002). Bilal held improvisatory jam sessions while recording his second album, Love for Sale , at Electric Lady, although its experimental direction alienated his label from releasing it, and a subsequent leak led to its indefinite shelving. Common's similarly experimental Electric Circus sold disappointingly, which discouraged MCA Records , Common and

2911-494: The derogatory terms "wookies" or "wooks". Jam bands often allow their fans to record their live shows, a practice which many other musical genres view as "illegal bootlegging". The Grateful Dead encouraged this practice, which helped to create a thriving scene around the collecting and trading of recordings of their live performances. Starting in 1984, the band recognized the fact that people were already "unofficially" taping their shows, so they started to sell taper tickets for

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2982-525: The development of salsa , especially the salsa dura style. As the instrumental proficiency of rock musicians improved in the 1960s and early 1970s, onstage jamming—free improvisation—also became a regular feature of rock music; bands such as Pink Floyd , Cream , The Rolling Stones , the Jimi Hendrix Experience , Deep Purple , The Who , the Grateful Dead , AC/DC , Led Zeppelin , Santana , King Crimson , Lynyrd Skynyrd , Steely Dan , and

3053-442: The emergence of improvised jam sessions during the filin movement of the 1940s, where boleros , sones and other song types were performed in an extended form called descarga . During the 1950s these descargas became the basis of a new genre of improvised jams based on the son montuno with notable jazz influences pioneered by the likes of Julio Gutiérrez and Cachao . During the 1960s, descargas played an important role in

3124-533: The festival. The location of the main stage at the bottom of a hill created a natural amphitheater with the music from the stage projected to the maximum number of listeners sitting on the hill; the mountains of West Virginia serving as backdrop. A Virginia driver, Clay Lewin, crashed into a tent of sleeping women at the West Virginia festival site near Masontown in July 2011. Nicole Miller, 20, of South Carolina , died in

3195-562: The founding of the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2002. This multi-band, multi-day festival which annually draws close to 100,000 music fans, started as a jam band-focused event. Over time, bands from many genres have performed at Bonnaroo, but the similarities to Phish's festivals are still apparent. There was no clear jam-band successor after Phish's 2004 breakup. Newer bands such as STS9 , Disco Biscuits , and Umphrey's McGee grew their fanbase. No upcoming jam band has yet to reach

3266-573: The graphics, liner notes, and packaging. In the August 2006 issue of Guitar One on jam bands, the following places were referred to as the "best places to see jam music": Red Rocks Amphitheatre , Red Rocks Park , Denver, CO ; The Gorge Amphitheatre , George, Washington ; High Sierra Music Festival , Quincy, CA ; Saratoga Performing Arts Center , Saratoga Springs, NY ; The Greek Theater , Berkeley, CA ; Bonnaroo Music Festival (Bonnaroo has become increasingly mainstream in recent years, and has seen

3337-428: The improvisation really collective… Down in that basement concert hall, somebody was always yelling over to me, 'Hey Jelly, what you gonna do?'—they gave me that nickname, or sometimes called me Roll, because I always wanted to play Clarence Williams ' '(I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This) Jelly Roll'—and almost every time I'd cap them with, 'Jelly's gonna jam some now,' just as a kind of play on words. We always used

3408-496: The jam band-friendly venue Wetlands Preserve in New York City. In 1991 Dave Matthews , together with jazz musicians Carter Beauford and LeRoi Moore , formed a trio which - after Stefan Lessard joined them - became the first iteration of the Dave Matthews Band. Improvisations have taken a backseat to more polished material, which may be due to their crossover commercial successes, MTV videos, and mainstream radio airplay. In

3479-456: The jam bands of today are unified by the nimble ears of their receptive listeners. Although in 2007 the term may have been used to describe nearly any cross-genre band, festival band, or improvisational band, the term retains an affinity to Grateful Dead-like bands such as Phish. Andy Gadiel, the initial webmaster of Jambands.com, states in Budnick's 2004 edition of Jambands that the music "...had

3550-569: The jamband or improvisational umbrella, essentially nothing more than a broad label for a diverse array of bands, is open wide enough to shelter several different types of bands, whether you are The Dave Matthews Band or RAQ. The Jammy Awards have had members of non-jamming bands which were founded in the 1970s and were unrelated to the Grateful Dead perform at their show such as new wave band The B-52's . The Jammys have also awarded musicians from prior decades such as Frank Zappa . Artists such as The Derek Trucks Band have resisted being labelled

3621-409: The jazz they could not play in the " Paul Whiteman " style bands they played in. When Bing Crosby attended these sessions, the musicians would say he was "jammin' the beat," since he would clap on the one and the three. Thus these sessions became known as "jam sessions." Mezz Mezzrow also gives this more detailed and self-referential description, based on his experience at the jazz speakeasy known as

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3692-571: The late '60s incorporated live jam techniques like Cream yet the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers allowed the "jam band" to become a genre unto itself; more recent bands following in their steps include Phish , moe. , Umphreys Mcgee , and Widespread Panic , all of which feature extended improvisational sessions. Other bands such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers also regularly perform live jam sessions. Bluegrass music also features

3763-468: The latter was more efficient. Jam bands encourage fans to bring recording equipment to live performances and give away copies of what they record. This practice may increase the sizes of their audiences and the total revenue received from concerts and the sale of recorded music. The fans reciprocate the generosity of the jam bands by helping enforce the copyright rules that the bands write, consistent with Tyler's "process-based" law enforcement. Schultz said

3834-528: The mainstream music industry. This could be seen in the perceptions of their fans: Jam-band fans view themselves and the band as part of a shared community, which the band management serves. In comparison, fans of mainstream music "often portray band management as part of a ruthless industry that ... mistreats fans and musicians alike". Professor Tom R. Tyler considered the main law-enforcement strategies for copyright protection, finding that deterrence and process-based strategies could both be effective, but that

3905-547: The mainstream recording industry. It is unclear which business model is most remunerative for music industry managers, but Schultz insisted that jam bands tend to have more loyal fans, and the mainstream music industry might benefit from following this model and treating their fans with more respect. Jam session 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 . To "jam"

3976-545: The mid nineties, Dave Matthews band achieved commercial success and won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance with the song " So Much To Say ". By the end of the decade, Phish had signed a recording contract with Elektra Records , and transformed from a New England/Northeast-based band into a national touring band ( see: Colorado '88 ). With its fusion of southern rock, jazz, and blues, Widespread Panic has earned renown for appearing multiple times in Pollstar 's "Concert Pulse" chart of

4047-491: The new millennium with an enormous festival called "Big Cypress" in southern Florida, which concluded with an eight-hour set. Other jam bands followed the success of these festivals, notably the Disco Biscuits, who held their first Camp Bisco in 1999, and moe., which began its annual moe.down festivals in 2000. The third generation of jam bands appeared in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many inspired by Phish and other acts of

4118-534: The same period, Phish rose to prominence, and bands such as String Cheese Incident and Blues Traveler became successful. Many Deadheads migrated to the Phish scene, and Phish became recognized as more mainstream. The jam-band scene gained more recognition during the late 1990s, with Dave Matthews Band and Phish being among the most influential bands of the genre, drawing large crowds to amphitheaters and arenas. Dave Matthews Band played at Woodstock '99 while Phish celebrated

4189-509: The scene. A jam band festival may include bands with electronic , folk rock , blues rock , jazz fusion , psychedelic rock , southern rock , progressive rock , acid jazz , hip hop , hard rock , reggae , and bluegrass sounds. The electronic trend has been led by such bands as The Disco Biscuits , Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9), Lotus , EOTO , The New Deal , and Dopapod . Bands like moe. , Umphrey's McGee , Lettuce , Assembly of Dust , The Heavy Pets and The Breakfast have carried on

4260-476: The second wave. These included Soulive , Gov't Mule , The Derek Trucks Band , Steve Kimock Band and My Morning Jacket . Additionally, groups such as The Disco Biscuits and Sound Tribe Sector 9 added electronic and techno elements into their performances, developing the livetronica subgenre. The early 2010s saw a fourth generation of jam bands, including Dopapod , Pigeons Playing Ping Pong , CBDB , Goose , Twiddle , Moon Taxi and Spafford . Members of

4331-594: The singer D'Angelo and the drummer-producer Questlove (of The Roots ) prepared to record the former's Voodoo (2000) album at the studio. Their sessions there over the next five years resulted in the Roots' albums Things Fall Apart (1999) and Phrenology (2002), singer Erykah Badu 's second album Mama's Gun (2000), rapper Common 's albums Like Water for Chocolate (2000) and Electric Circus (2002), and singer Bilal 's debut album 1st Born Second . Badu has said that "just about everything from [ Mama's Gun ]

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4402-401: The song's relative rarity in setlists of differing eras. Some bands will play on this anticipation by adding little "teases" into their sets. For example, playing a few bars of a famous cover song or hinting at a popular jam and then either never getting around to actually playing the song, or coming back to it after an extended jam. The use of segues to blend strings of songs is another mark of

4473-402: The subject for jambands.com , Dan Greenhaus attempted to explain the evolution of a jam band as such: At this point, what you sing about, what instruments you play, how often you tour and how old you are has become virtually irrelevant. At this point, one thing is left and, ironically, after all these years, it's the single most important place one should focus on; the approach to the music. And

4544-486: The subject, entitled Jam Bands . He founded Jambands.com later that year and is often credited with coining the term. However, in his second book on the subject, 2004's Jambands: A Complete Guide to the Players, Music & Scene , he explains that he only popularized it. Rolling Stone magazine asserted in a 2004 biography that Phish "was the living, breathing, noodling definition of the term" jam band, in that it became

4615-430: The template for future jam bands was the Grateful Dead , founded in 1965 by San Francisco-based guitarist Jerry Garcia . The Dead attracted an enormous cult following, mainly on the strength of their live performances and live albums (their studio albums were only modest successes and received little radio play). The band specialized in improvisational jamming at concerts. They played long two-set shows, and gave their fans

4686-628: The term has a recent history for which it is used exclusively. An example of this discernment is the acceptance of Les Claypool as a jam band in the year 2000. Though known for his decade with Primus (a band that jams) and solo works, it was after he created the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade with members of Ratdog and released Live Frogs Set 1 that as Budnick wrote had "marked [Claypool's] entry into [the jamband] world." Budnick has been both editor-in-chief of Jambands.com and executive editor of Relix magazine. The band that set

4757-489: The top fifty bands on the road, and they have performed more than 150 live dates a year." In the early 1990s, a new generation of bands was spurred by the Grateful Dead's touring and the increased exposure of The Black Crowes , Phish, and Widespread Panic. At the same time, the Internet gained popularity and provided a medium for fans to discuss these bands and their performances as well as to view emerging concepts. Phish and

4828-554: The word 'session' a lot, and I think the expression 'jam session' grew up out of this playful yelling back and forth. The New York scene during World War II was famous for its after-hours jam sessions. One of the most famous was the regular after-hours jam at Minton's Playhouse in New York City that ran in the 1940s and early 1950s. The jam sessions at Minton's were a fertile meeting place and proving ground for both established soloists like Ben Webster and Lester Young as well as

4899-416: The younger jazz musicians who would soon become leading exponents of the bebop movement, including Thelonious Monk (Minton's house pianist), saxophone player Charlie Parker , and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie . The Minton's jams had competitive " cutting contests ," in which soloists would try to keep up with the house band and outdo each other in improvisational skill. Influenced by jazz, Cuban music saw

4970-415: Was a jam." According to music journalist Michael Gonzales, their sessions were marked by an experimentation with "dirty soul, muddy water blues, Black Ark dub science, mix-master madness, screeching guitars, old school hip-hop, gutbucket romanticism, inspired lyricism, African chats and aesthetics, pimpin' politics, strange Moogs , Kraftwerk synths and spacey noise." The musical approach also influenced

5041-411: Was applied to acts that incorporated genres such as blues , country music , contemporary folk music , funk , progressive rock , world music , jazz fusion , Southern rock , alternative rock , acid jazz , bluegrass , folk rock and electronic music into their sound. Although the term has been used to describe cross-genre and improvisational artists, it retains an affinity to the fan cultures of

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