List of jam bands
The following is a list of 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.[1]
Jam bands
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Col. Bruce Hampton and The Aquarium Rescue Unit, October 2004
- Acoustic Syndicate
- Al and The Transamericans
- Allman Brothers Band
- Amfibian
- Animal Liberation Orchestra
- Appalachian Gypsy Tribe
- Apollo
- Aquarium Rescue Unit
- Assembly of Dust
- Ataxia
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Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Washington, August 1, 2007
- Back Door Slam
- Band of Gypsys
- Banyan
- Barefoot Manner
- Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
- Benevento/Russo Duo
- Bernie Worrell & the WOO Warriors
- Big Gigantic
- Big Head Todd and the Monsters
- Big Tasty
- Biodiesel
- The Big Wu
- BK3
- The Black Crowes
- Blind Faith
- Blues Project
- Blues Traveler
- Bobby and the Midnites
- The Bomb Squad
- BoomBox
- The Brakes
- The Breakfast
- The Brew
- The Bridge
- Buckethead
- Buckminster Fuller
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The Cardinals, live at the Manchester Academy, England, November 2008
- The Cardinals
- Centipede
- Clutch
- The Codetalkers
- Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Pharaoh Gummit
- Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
- Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
- Cope
- Cornmeal
- Country Joe and the Fish
- Cream
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Dave Matthews Band: Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, and Butch Taylor in Melbourne during their first tour of Australia
- Dark Star Orchestra
- Dave Matthews Band
- David Nelson Band
- The Dead
- Dear Liza
- Deep Banana Blackout
- Derek and the Dominos
- Derek Trucks Band
- The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
- The Disco Biscuits
- Dispatch
- Donavon Frankenreiter
- Donna Jean Godchaux Band
- Dopapod
- DJ Logic
- Donna the Buffalo
- Dr. Dan Matrazzo and the Looters
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- Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
- The Egg
- Ekoostik hookah
- Electric Apricot
- The Electric Co.
- EOTO
- The Expendables
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- Family Groove Company
- Fat Freddy's Drop
- Freddy Jones Band
- Fungus Amungus
- Furthur
- Future Rock
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Gov't Mule performing in 2008
- G. Love & Special Sauce
- Gabe Dixon Band
- Galactic
- Galapagos
- Garage A Trois
- Garaj Mahal
- Ghosts of Jupiter
- Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
- God Street Wine
- Gov't Mule
- GP and the Burning Heart
- Grateful Dead
- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- The Grapes
- Greensky Bluegrass
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- Infamous Stringdusters
- Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
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- Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
- Keller Williams
- King Crimson
- Kingfish
- Kudzu Kings
- KVHW
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- The Machine
- Maktub
- Man
- The Mars Volta
- The Marshall Tucker Band
- Matisyahu
- Matt Schofield
- Max Creek
- The McLovins
- Medeski Martin & Wood
- Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
- Michael Franti & Spearhead
- moe.
- Mofro
- The Mother Hips
- Motorpsycho
- My Morning Jacket
- Moon Taxi
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The North Mississippi Allstars in a wedding reception performance in Gunnison, Mississippi, 1999
- New Deal
- New Grass Revival
- New Riders of the Purple Sage
- New Monsoon
- Nickel Creek
- North Mississippi All-Stars
- The New Mastersounds
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- Papadosio
- Particle
- Pat McGee Band
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Perpetual Groove
- Phil Lesh and Friends
- Phish
- Pink Floyd
- Polyphonic Spree
- Pnuma Trio
- Primus
- Pseudopod
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Quicksilver Messenger Service
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Grateful Dead drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, of the Rhythm Devils
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Slightly Stoopid, Summer Haze 2007 tour
- Sabbatical
- Santana
- The Samples
- SerialPod
- Sister Hazel
- Slightly Stoopid
- The Slip
- Soulhat
- Soulfarm
- Soulive
- Soul Rebels Brass Band
- Sound Tribe Sector 9
- Spafford
- Spearhead
- The Spin Doctors
- State Radio
- Steve Kimock Band
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Strangefolk
- The String Cheese Incident
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- Talking Heads
- Tauk
- Tea Leaf Green
- Ten Ton Chicken
- Ten Years After
- Toubab Krewe
- Traffic
- Trey Anastasio Band
- Trigon
- The Tubes
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Umphrey's McGee in April 2007
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Widespread Panic performing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 2010
- The Waybacks
- The Werks
- Ween
- White Denim
- Widespread Panic
- The Word
- Wilco
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Yonder Mountain String Band, April 21, 2007, The Fillmore, San Francisco
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See also
References
- ↑ "What is a jam band?". Jambands.com. Archived from the original on 2007-01-24. Retrieved 2007-02-02.