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Meeting for improvising music
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jam session
Word definitions for jam session in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an impromptu jazz concert
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jam session is musicians' informal group playing. Jam session may also refer to: Jam Session (film) , 1942 short film featuring Duke Ellington Jam Session , a 1944 American film directed by Charles Barton Jam Sessions , video game Jam Session (software) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Baker was first heard no record in a public jam session of 1941 and quickly established an unbeatable reputation in London clubs. ▪ Then on Sunday night all styles will merge in a monumental jam session .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) An informal gathering of musicians to play music, especially improvised jazz or a similar genre.
Usage examples of jam session.
He supposed that in the old days this would have been called a jam session, but it was too remote and intellectual for that.
It contained the hot, acid blare, the frenetic, jittering runs of a jam session.
Four hours after that, with our Permanent Party back up to full speed, and roaring merrily into its second week-it turned out that Solace had recorded that entire monster jam session, digitally-the phone rang.
They would split up, get together with other friends for a jam session now and again, but it would be a hobby, nothing more.
He's dressed in yellow satin shorts and a trombone and he and his pals are putting on a jam session.
He and Dwight planned a massive prayer session in their apartment that they envisioned as a cosmic Woodstock, a jam session of every god, deva, and angel.
Or, since I tend to think in musical terms, it's a story that lends itself to something of a cross between chamber music and a jam session.
Music will give place to jiving: which as far as I can make out means holding a 'jam session' round a piano (an instrument properly intended to produce the sounds devised by, say, Chopin) and hitting it so hard that it breaks.
Last night he'd played at a jam session and lots of friends who knew both him and his ex-wife had seen him.
From behind the man's silhouetted figure came the faint sounds of a jam session holding forth in the unseen rooms.
A human jazz composer, had any been watching, would have understood he was seeing a jam session.
Of course, he would also have thought it was a jam session being played by homicidal maniacs, and would be desperately looking for an elephant gunbut, again, all those concepts were alien to Ekhat, and beneath their notice.
In the midst of a talk-through jam session - Harper and Jandra four-handing it on the Steinway while Annek‚.
Of course, he would also have thought it was a jam session being played by homicidal maniacs, and would be desperately looking for an elephant gun—.
The food was good, the conversation after was even better, and after a while I did manage to get a jam session going around the campfire that had been built, with the two guys I'd spotted earlier plus a few other camping musicians who'd been attracted by the noise and party atmosphere.