jam session
noun
: an often impromptu performance by a group especially of jazz musicians that is characterized by improvisation
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These camps, often funded by record labels or publishers, can center on a specific artist or be a general jam session.
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Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 24 July 2025
The two bonded over their love of music and collaborated regularly for live shows and jam sessions.
—Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
By sheer virtue of my existence, I was deployed here with the task of disrupting the homogeneity of these jam sessions.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
Start your day early with fun for the whole family at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, where there will be hands-on art projects, mural-making, musical jam sessions, and lessons on how Juneteenth is celebrated in Galveston Island, Texas—the original home of Juneteenth.
—Essence, 19 June 2025
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Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 24 July 2025
The two bonded over their love of music and collaborated regularly for live shows and jam sessions.
—Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
By sheer virtue of my existence, I was deployed here with the task of disrupting the homogeneity of these jam sessions.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
Start your day early with fun for the whole family at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, where there will be hands-on art projects, mural-making, musical jam sessions, and lessons on how Juneteenth is celebrated in Galveston Island, Texas—the original home of Juneteenth.
—Essence, 19 June 2025
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“Jam session.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jam%20session. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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