The Jammy Award (also known as the Jammys ) is an awards show for bands - referred to as jam bands - and other artists associated with live, improvisational music, created by Dean Budnick and Peter Shapiro. The Jammys are sponsored by Relix magazine, Jambands.com , and Shapiro. The Jammy Awards returned in 2008 to the WAMU Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City after taking a one-year break.
150-456: 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 . 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
300-552: 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
450-461: 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 the 1960s San Francisco Bay Area music scene, which included
600-589: 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
750-661: 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
900-558: 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
1050-655: A close with many of the nights performers jamming to Bob Marley 's " One Love ". People included Little Feat , Hart, Kreutzmann, Stephen Marley , Ky-Mani Marley , Frampton, DJ Logic, Satriani, Hubert Sumlin , Consequence , Musselwhite and Fleck. Lifetime Achievement: Frank Zappa Tour of the Year: Big Summer Classic Tour (String Cheese Incident, Keller Williams, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Yonder Mountain String Band, Umphrey's McGee, New Monsoon, and Xavier Rudd) Live Album of
1200-403: A compilation of songs created by any average listener of music. The songs on a mixtape generally relate to one another in some way, whether it be a conceptual theme or an overall sound. After the introduction of Compact discs, the term "Mixtape" began to apply to any personal compilation of songs on any given format. The sales of Compact Cassettes eventually began to decline in the 1990s, after
1350-434: A cover of Steppenwolfs " Magic Carpet Ride ". Next Bela Fleck and the Flecktones played a set. Next, a mixture band consisting of Joe Satriani , Steve Kimock , Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins , horn player Willie Waldman, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey bassist Reed Mathis and Grace Potter performed a set. After them, Guster was joined by Peter Frampton and worked on material from Guster's new album Ganging up
1500-424: A current or former member of a musical group which is released under that artist's name only, even though some or all other band members may be involved. The solo album appeared as early as the late 1940s. A 1947 Billboard magazine article heralded " Margaret Whiting huddling with Capitol execs over her first solo album on which she will be backed by Frank De Vol ". There is no formal definition setting forth
1650-561: A customer buys a whole album rather than just one or two songs from the artist. The song is not necessarily free nor is it available as a stand-alone download, adding also to the incentive to buy the complete album. In contrast to hidden tracks , bonus tracks are included on track listings and usually do not have a gap of silence between other album tracks. Bonus tracks on CD or vinyl albums are common in Japan for releases by European and North American artists; since importing international copies of
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#17327833736931800-461: 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
1950-534: 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
2100-418: 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
2250-575: A jam anchored by ceremony host Phil Lesh and The Roots drummer ?uestlove . John Mayer , a 2002 Jammy performer and Guy disciple, also made a surprise appearance, adding guitar to a version of “ Hoochie Coochie Man ”. Medeski, Martin and Wood assisted with songs by Burning Spear and Sinéad O'Connor . This performance marked O'Connor’s first appearance in New York in over five years. Luther Dickinson, ?uestlove, Disco Biscuits' Aron Magner and Jon Gutwillig, Claypool and Marco Benevento all returned to
2400-966: 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
2550-549: 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
2700-527: 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
2850-590: A jam between the Benevento/Russo Duo and Mike Gordon . The Disco Biscuits then performed for the first time without founding drummer Sam Altman, who was currently preparing for a career in medicine. Scheduled to perform “Honytonk” with Travis Tritt (who performed his own show earlier in the evening at BB King Blues Club), the Disco Biscuits also included the country star’s drummer for a version of its “House Dog Party Favor.” Buddy Guy led
3000-405: 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,
3150-594: A rearranged version of "(You Made Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and a medley of "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Take the Money and Run" that earned some of the evenings loudest cheers. The pair apparently bonded backstage and when Williams later took top honors in the Song on the Year category, he sent Chase onstage in his place for a humorous speech that included the line, "I want to thank Clive Davis just because I feel like I should." As
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#17327833736933300-596: 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
3450-501: A single artist, genre or period, a single artist covering the songs of various artists or a single artist, genre or period, or any variation of an album of cover songs which is marketed as a "tribute". Jammy Awards The First Annual Jammy Awards were held on June 22, 2000, at Irving Plaza in New York City . The event was presented by Jambands.com and executive producers Peter Shapiro and Dean Budnick . Shapiro, who owns
3600-522: A single case, or a triple album containing three LPs or compact discs. Recording artists who have an extensive back catalogue may re-release several CDs in one single box with a unified design, often containing one or more albums (in this scenario, these releases can sometimes be referred to as a "two (or three)-fer"), or a compilation of previously unreleased recordings. These are known as box sets . Some musical artists have also released more than three compact discs or LP records of new recordings at once, in
3750-535: A slew of guests, including Booker T. Jones, Sharon Jones, Jurassic 5s Chali 2na and MC Doug E. Fresh for songs like "Hip Hug-Her," "Born Under A Bad Sign" and "Think Back," among others. The evening's surprise guests really started coming out in force when Beatles tribute act the Fab Faux took the stage with stealth performer Joan Osborne for a rendition of "Come Together." The Fab Faux then busted into "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and Anastasio emerged partway through
3900-829: A snowstorm in the Northeast. Dr. John , Toots Hibbert (Toots and Maytals), bassist George Porter Jr. ( the Meters ), guitarist Brian Stoltz ( the Meters ), and drummer Matt Abts ( Gov't Mule ) then took the stage for a set that included "Right Place, Wrong Time", "Pressure Drop" and "Hey Pocky Way," with Widespread Panic keyboardist JoJo Hermann on the latter. The Derek Trucks Band featured vocalist Solomon Burke for "I wish I knew How it Would Feel to be Free" and "Home in Your Heart." Trucks’ wife, Susan Tedeschi , along with Dickey Betts , then joined in for "Turn on Your Lovelight." The String Cheese Incident opened its portion of
4050-433: A solo album for several reasons. A solo performer working with other members will typically have full creative control of the band, be able to hire and fire accompanists, and get the majority of the proceeds. The performer may be able to produce songs that differ widely from the sound of the band with which the performer has been associated, or that the group as a whole chose not to include in its own albums. Graham Nash of
4200-414: A studio. However, the common understanding of a "live album" is one that was recorded at a concert with a public audience, even when the recording is overdubbed or multi-tracked. Concert or stage performances are recorded using remote recording techniques. Albums may be recorded at a single concert , or combine recordings made at multiple concerts. They may include applause, laughter and other noise from
4350-430: A studio. Studios are built to absorb sound, eliminating reverberation , to assist in mixing different takes; other locations, such as concert venues and some "live rooms", have reverberation, which creates a "live" sound. Recordings, including live, may contain editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology , artists can be recorded in separate rooms or at separate times while listening to
4500-489: 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
4650-406: A theme such as the "greatest hits" from one artist, B-sides and rarities by one artist, or selections from a record label , a musical genre , a certain time period, or a regional music scene. Promotional sampler albums are compilations. A tribute or cover album is a compilation of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may involve various artists covering the songs of
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4800-453: A trend of shifting sales in the music industry , some observers feel that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album . An album may contain any number of tracks. In the United States, The Recording Academy 's rules for Grammy Awards state that an album must comprise a minimum total playing time of 15 minutes with at least five distinct tracks or a minimum total playing time of 30 minutes with no minimum track requirement. In
4950-623: A two-stage dueling jam on The Meters ' classic " Cissy Strut ", which followed the presentation of the lifetime achievement award to George Porter Jr. The song featured the Derek Trucks Band with special guests Porter (bass, the Meters), Popper (vocals, harmonica, Blues Traveler ) and Jordan (guitar). Album of the Year: Phish " Farmhouse " Live Performance of the Year: Phish , 7/11/00, Noblesville, IN New Groove of
5100-488: A version of "I'm Going Down" that included "Close Encounters", before offering his signature song, "Mississippi Queen". Next up, festival favorite Keller Williams took the stage to perform a solo version of his Jammy nominated song "Cadillac." He was joined onstage by comedian/actor Chevy Chase, who, unbeknownst to most, played drums with Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in one of their bands that preceded Steely Dan.. On this occasion Chase opted to play piano alongside Williams on
5250-522: A version of “Freedom Highway,” with vocal duties supplied by Mavis Staples . Richie Havens , who was the first performance at Woodstock '69, started the night off with his song "Freedom", backed by the Mutaytor. Next, Blues Traveler paid tribute to the Wetlands club by performing their song "NY Prophesie" with DJ Logic . Bettye LaVette also appeared during Blues Traveler's set, adding vocals on
5400-430: A way of promoting the album. Albums have been issued that are compilations of older tracks not originally released together, such as singles not originally found on albums, b-sides of singles, or unfinished " demo " recordings. Double albums during the seventies were sometimes sequenced for record changers . In the case of a two-record set, for example, sides 1 and 4 would be stamped on one record, and sides 2 and 3 on
5550-580: Is any vocal content. A track that has the same name as the album is called the title track. A bonus track (also known as a bonus cut or bonus) is a piece of music which has been included as an extra. This may be done as a marketing promotion, or for other reasons. It is not uncommon to include singles, B-sides , live recordings , and demo recordings as bonus tracks on re-issues of old albums, where those tracks were not originally included. Online music stores allow buyers to create their own albums by selecting songs themselves; bonus tracks may be included if
5700-426: 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, the jam bands of today are unified by the nimble ears of their receptive listeners. Although in 2007
5850-626: 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
6000-555: Is not necessarily just in MP3 file format, in which higher quality formats such as FLAC and WAV can be used on storage media that MP3 albums reside on, such as CD-R-ROMs , hard drives , flash memory (e.g. thumbdrives , MP3 players , SD cards ), etc. The contents of the album are usually recorded in a studio or live in concert, though may be recorded in other locations, such as at home (as with JJ Cale's Okie , Beck's Odelay , David Gray's White Ladder , and others), in
6150-402: Is recorded on both the "A" and "B" side of the tape, with cassette being "turned" to play the other side of the album. Compact Cassettes were also a popular way for musicians to record " Demos " or "Demo Tapes" of their music to distribute to various record labels, in the hopes of acquiring a recording contract . Compact cassettes also saw the creation of mixtapes , which are tapes containing
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6300-502: 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
6450-1126: The Wetlands Preserve , is the publisher of Jambands.com. Budnick is editor in chief of Jambands.com and also co-hosted The Jammys with Peter Prince of Moon Boot Lover. The evening had two basic components: awards were presented in various categories, and the scene's best bands performed sets of blistering music with special guests. The idea originated nearly 10 months prior in a conversation between Budnick and managers for various bands. John Topper from Moe , Bob Kennedy from Deep Banana Blackout, and Darren Cohen from The Slip had all referenced "The Jammys" as an obvious play on "The Grammys." Presenters included: Steve Bloom ( High Times ), Richard Gehr ( The Village Voice ), Lee Crumpton (Home Grown Music Network founder), Sam Kopper (first program director at WBCN in Boston , Phoenix Presents live engineer), John Scofield , Anthony DeCurtis ( Rolling Stone , VH1 ), Kirk West ( The Allman Brothers Band archivist), and Jambands.com staff members. Strangefolk closed
6600-520: The iPod , US album sales dropped 54.6% from 2001 to 2009. The CD is a digital data storage device which permits digital recording technology to be used to record and play-back the recorded music. Most recently, the MP3 audio format has matured, revolutionizing the concept of digital storage. Early MP3 albums were essentially CD-rips created by early CD- ripping software, and sometimes real-time rips from cassettes and vinyl. The so-called "MP3 album"
6750-524: The 1970s. Appraising the concept in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said most "are profit-taking recaps marred by sound and format inappropriate to phonographic reproduction (you can't put sights, smells, or fellowship on audio tape). But for Joe Cocker and Bette Midler and Bob-Dylan -in-the-arena, the form makes a compelling kind of sense." Among
6900-404: 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
7050-415: The 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popularity of the cassette reached its peak during the late 1980s before sharply declining during the 1990s. The cassette had largely disappeared by
7200-443: The 25-minute mark. The album Dopesmoker by Sleep contains only a single track, but the composition is over 63 minutes long. There are no formal rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as "albums". If an album becomes too long to fit onto a single vinyl record or CD, it may be released as a double album where two vinyl LPs or compact discs are packaged together in
7350-601: 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
7500-528: 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"
7650-476: The B-52's played "Planet Claire", "Private Idaho" and "Love Shack". Original Blue Öyster Cult members Eric Bloom (vocals), Buck Dharma (guitar) and Allen Lanier (guitar, keyboards) took the stage as Moe was finishing "Rebubula" and segued into " (Don't Fear) The Reaper ." Reid Genauer, Jessica Lurie (Living Daylights) and Hope Clayburn (Deep Banana Blackout) joined house band The Tom Tom Club for "Take Me to
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#17327833736937800-444: The Derek Trucks Band for a version of "Turn On Your Lovelight". Paul Shaffer sat in with Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade featuring Junior Brown for The Beatles' " Taxman " and King Crimson 's " Thela Hun Ginjeet ". DJ Logic and guitarist Stanley Jordan performed with The Disco Biscuits featuring John Popper for Jane's Addiction 's " Three Days " and Led Zeppelin 's " Bring It On Home ". The show concluded with
7950-587: The Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO The Fifth Annual Jammy awards were held on April 26, 2005 at Madison Square Garden . Phil Lesh , bass player of the Grateful Dead , was the host. Bruce Hornsby ran through his “Valley Road” with Yonder Mountain String Band and Leftover Salmon 's Vince Herman. Next up, Huey Lewis joined Umphrey's McGee for a mini-set beginning with “Heart & Soul.” Soon after, Mavis Staples , Sinéad O'Connor and Jeff Coffin joined
8100-485: 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
8250-424: 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
8400-448: 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
8550-478: 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 a Jam Band? Please cast aside any preconceptions that this phrase may evoke. The term, as it
8700-496: The Hollies described his experience in developing a solo album as follows: "The thing that I go through that results in a solo album is an interesting process of collecting songs that can't be done, for whatever reason, by a lot of people". A solo album may also represent the departure of the performer from the group. A compilation album is a collection of material from various recording projects or various artists, assembled with
8850-476: The Jammys was to create a night of music where we didn't know what was going to happen," says Jammys executive producer Peter Shapiro. "We wanted to bring artists who not only hadn't played together, but hadn't met and now, after experiencing what went down, it's a pretty overwhelming feeling." Col. Bruce Hampton , Yonder Mountain String Band 's Jeff Austin ( mandolin ) and Robert Randolph ( pedal steel ) joined
9000-494: The Long Playing record format in 1948, it was natural the term album would continue. Columbia expected that the record size distinction in 78s would continue, with classical music on 12" records and popular music on 10" records, and singles on 78s. Columbia's first popular 10" LP in fact was Frank Sinatra's first album, the four-record eight-song The Voice of Frank Sinatra , originally issued in 1946. RCA's introduction of
9150-641: The River". Bassist Stefan Lessard ( Dave Matthews Band ) played "Beautifully Broken" with Gov't Mule , before the Allman Brothers Band took the stage. Rat Dog's set was capped by the dual stage jam, which closed out the show with a version of "Turn on Your Lovelight," with countless musicians on both stages. Rat Dog was joined on the main stage by guitarist Trey Anastasio ( Phish ), Warren Haynes ( Gov't Mule , The Allman Brothers Band ), Al Schnier ( Moe ), Popper, Abts, and DJ Logic . Meanwhile,
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#17327833736939300-673: The River." Former New Groove of the Month Rose Hill Drive took the stage next with special guest Matisyahu and his bandmates Aaron Dugan and Rob Marscher (formerly of 2001 Jammy nominees Addison Groove Project). The strange bedfellows ran through a cover of The Flaming Lips' "In the Morning of the Magicians", before Mountain guitarist Leslie West took the stage with Rose Hill Drive for the evening's loudest offerings. The hard-rock guitarist jammed with Rose Hill Drive and Potter on
9450-651: The Sun. Martin Sexton also joined them for a version of Frampton's " Do You Feel Like We Do ." Banjoist Bela Fleck led his band, the Flecktones , on their first performance at a Jammys, welcoming jazz legend McCoy Tyner and tap dancer Savion Glover to join them. Next, Dweezil Zappa debuted his band Zappa Plays Zappa . Dweezil performed many tunes from his father's catalog and was joined by Mickey Hart , Chick Corea , and Jake Cinninger during their set, then Moe took
9600-467: 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
9750-591: The United Kingdom, the criteria for the UK Albums Chart is that a recording counts as an "album" if it either has more than four tracks or lasts more than 25 minutes. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs . Albums such as Tubular Bells , Amarok , and Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield , and Yes's Close to the Edge , include fewer than four tracks, but still surpass
9900-1156: 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
10050-524: The Year - Dave Matthews Band - The Central Park Concert Album Cover of the Year - The String Cheese Incident - Untying the Knot by Alex Gray New Groove of the Year - The Breakfast (formerly Psychedelic Breakfast) Mimi Fishman Memorial Community Service Award - Justin Baker, Conscious Alliance Grahamy Jammy (Industry award for support of the scene) - Don Strasburg, talent buyer for
10200-428: The Year - The Allman Brothers Band - Old Before My Time Archival Live Album of the Year - The Grateful Dead - Closing of Winterland: December 31, 1978 Live Performance of the Year - Gov't Mule with Les Claypool , Bela Fleck , Sonny Landreth , George Porter Jr., Dave Schools, Victor Wooten and more - 5/3/03, Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, LA Tour of the Year - Phish - Summer 2003 DVD of
10350-795: The Year: Phish , IT Archival Live Album of the Year: Jerry Garcia , After Midnight Kean College, 2/28/80 Mimi Fishman Memorial Community Service Award: HeadCount Studio Album of the Year : Gov't Mule , Deja Voodoo Live Album of the Year: Keller Williams Stage Live Performance of the Year: Phil Lesh & Friends , 12/19/04 Grahamy Jammy: Ken Hays The Sixth Annual Jammy awards were held on April 20, 2006 at Madison Square Garden . The event
10500-720: The Year: Phish - Live at Madison Square Garden New Year's Eve 1995 DVD of the Year: Bob Dylan - No Direction Home New Groove: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Global Rhythm World Music Award: Baaba Maal The Jammy Industry Award: Larry Bloch Green Apple Award: Jack Johnson The Seventh Annual Jammy awards were held on May 7, 2008 at Madison Square Garden . The event
10650-949: The Year: Umphrey's McGee - Live at the Murat Studio Album of the Year: Moe - The Conch Song of the Year: Keller Williams - "Cadillac" Live Performance of the Year: Gov’t Mule and Guests, Bonnaroo Archival Album of the Year: The Grateful Dead- "Three From The Vault" DVD of the Year: the Disco Biscuits - "Progressions" Download of the Year: Phish - "Headphones Jam" New Groove: Cornmeal Mimi Fishman Memorial Community Service Award - Rock
10800-737: The Year: Widespread Panic - Live at Myrtle Beach Studio Album of the Year: Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon - Sixty Six Steps Song of the Year: Tea Leaf Green , "Taught To Be Proud" Live Performance of the Year: Moe Tsunami Relief Benefit, Roseland Ballroom, NYC, February 20, 2005 (Moe headlined with Trey Anastasio, Sam Bush , Jennifer Hartswick , John Medeski and Ray Paczkowski ) Archival Album of
10950-887: The Year: Widespread Panic ’s Live in the Classic City Archival Album: Phish , Live Phish 11: 11/17/97, McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO Song of the Year: Gov't Mule 's “Soulshine” New Groove of the Year: Robert Randolph and the Family Band Fan Website of the Year: Philzone.com Lifetime Achievement Award: Grateful Dead (presented by essay contest winner Bill Stites) Mimi Fishman Community Service Award: Joshua Stack, Panic Fans For Food Grahamy Jammy (industry award for support of
11100-413: The album can be cheaper than buying a domestically released version, Japanese releases often feature bonus tracks to incentivize domestic purchase. Commercial sheet music is published in conjunction with the release of a new album (studio, compilation, soundtrack, etc.). A matching folio songbook is a compilation of the music notation of all the songs included in that particular album. It typically has
11250-526: The album's artwork on its cover and, in addition to sheet music, it includes photos of the artist. Most pop and rock releases come in standard Piano/Vocal/Guitar notation format (and occasionally Easy Piano / E-Z Play Today). Rock-oriented releases may also come in Guitar Recorded Versions edition, which are note-for-note transcriptions written directly from artist recordings. Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one-half of
11400-511: The album. If a pop or rock album contained tracks released separately as commercial singles , they were conventionally placed in particular positions on the album. During the sixties, particularly in the UK, singles were generally released separately from albums. Today, many commercial albums of music tracks feature one or more singles, which are released separately to radio, TV or the Internet as
11550-479: The amount of participation a band member can solicit from other members of their band, and still have the album referred to as a solo album. One reviewer wrote that Ringo Starr 's third venture, Ringo , "[t]echnically... wasn't a solo album because all four Beatles appeared on it". Three of the four members of the Beatles released solo albums while the group was officially still together. A performer may record
11700-614: 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
11850-510: The audience, comments by the performers between pieces, improvisation, and so on. They may use multitrack recording direct from the stage sound system (rather than microphones placed among the audience), and can employ additional manipulation and effects during post-production to enhance the quality of the recording. Notable early live albums include the double album of Benny Goodman , The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert , released in 1950. Live double albums later became popular during
12000-406: The best selling live albums are Eric Clapton 's Unplugged (1992), selling over 26 million copies, Garth Brooks ' Double Live (1998), over 21 million copies, and Peter Frampton 's Frampton Comes Alive! (1976), over 11 million copies. In Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time , 18 albums were live albums. A solo album , in popular music , is an album recorded by
12150-507: The charge through spot-on renditions of "Wilson," "Run Like An Antelope," "2001," and "Maze," the latter of which also featured Disco Biscuits keyboardist Aron Magner. Throughout the performance, Moe lighting director, and former Jambands.com News Editor, Jeff Waful manned the board from the rear of the house. Lifetime Achievement: Phish Tour of the Year: the Disco Biscuits/Umphrey’s McGee, D.U.M.B Live Album of
12300-467: 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
12450-469: The collective for covers of “The Weight” and “I’ll Take You There.” Keller Williams and Questlove provided the rhythm section for the evening’s next jam session, which included a Nelly McKay version of Bob Dylan ’s “Rain Day Woman.” Ryan Adams invited Phil Lesh onto the stage for a cover of the Grateful Dead 's “Wharf Rat”. Les Claypool , dressed in a pig mask, and Gabby La La joined in during
12600-492: 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
12750-551: The early 1900s, the typical 10-inch disc could only hold about three minutes of sound per side, so almost all popular recordings were limited to around three minutes in length. Classical-music and spoken-word items generally were released on the longer 12-inch 78s, playing around 4–5 minutes per side. For example, in 1924, George Gershwin recorded a drastically shortened version of his new seventeen-minute composition Rhapsody in Blue with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The recording
12900-456: The early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album ; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl long-playing (LP) records played at 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 rpm . The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era . Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in
13050-506: The early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78s were bundled in book-like albums (one side of a 78 rpm record could hold only about 3.5 minutes of sound). When LP records were introduced, a collection of pieces or songs on a single record was called an "album"; the word was extended to other recording media such as compact disc, MiniDisc , compact audio cassette, 8-track tape and digital albums as they were introduced. An album (Latin albus , white), in ancient Rome,
13200-406: 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 the jamband or improvisational umbrella, essentially nothing more than
13350-624: The field – as with early blues recordings, in prison, or with a mobile recording unit such as the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio . Most albums are studio albums —that is, they are recorded in a recording studio with equipment meant to give those overseeing the recording as much control as possible over the sound of the album. They minimize external noises and reverberations and have highly sensitive microphones and sound mixing equipment. Band members may record their parts in separate rooms or at separate times, listening to
13500-491: The first decade of the 2000s. Most albums are recorded in a studio , although they may also be recorded in a concert venue , at home, in the field, or a mix of places. The time frame for completely recording an album varies between a few hours to several years. This process usually requires several takes with different parts recorded separately, and then brought or " mixed " together. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed "live", even when done in
13650-500: The form of a prototype. Compact Cassettes became especially popular during the 1980s after the advent of the Sony Walkman , which allowed the person to control what they listened to. The Walkman was convenient because of its size, the device could fit in most pockets and often came equipped with a clip for belts or pants. The compact cassette used double-sided magnetic tape to distribute music for commercial sale. The music
13800-480: The form of boxed sets, although in that case the work is still usually considered to be an album. Material (music or sounds) is stored on an album in sections termed tracks. A music track (often simply referred to as a track) is an individual song or instrumental recording. The term is particularly associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks; the term is also used for other formats such as EPs and singles . When vinyl records were
13950-572: 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
14100-415: The front cover and liner notes on the back or inside cover. Most albums included three or four records, with two sides each, making six or eight compositions per album. By the mid-1930s, record companies had adopted the album format for classical music selections that were longer than the roughly eight minutes that fit on both sides of a classical 12" 78 rpm record. Initially the covers were plain, with
14250-577: 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
14400-503: 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
14550-433: 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 the subject for jambands.com , Dan Greenhaus attempted to explain
14700-466: 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
14850-527: 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
15000-554: 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. Live album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music ) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette ), or digital . Albums of recorded sound were developed in
15150-550: 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
15300-487: The mid-1960s to the late 1970s when the Compact Cassette format took over. The format is regarded as an obsolete technology, and was relatively unknown outside the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Stereo 8 was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation , along with Ampex , Ford Motor Company , General Motors , Motorola , and RCA Victor Records . It
15450-481: The name of the selection and performer in small type. In 1938, Columbia Records hired the first graphic designer in the business to design covers, others soon followed and colorful album covers cover became an important selling feature. By the later '30s, record companies began releasing albums of previously released recordings of popular music in albums organized by performer, singers or bands, or by type of music, boogie-woogie , for example. When Columbia introduced
15600-434: 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
15750-697: The night with the instrumental "Valley of the Jig" and "’Round the Wheel." Jane's Addiction front man Perry Farrell then emerged for "Idiots Rule," which also included the Soulive horn section. Following Gov't Mule ’s "Blind Man in the Dark," Black Crowes members Chris Robinson, Rich Robinson and Eddie Harsch shared the stage for "Sometimes Salvation." It was their first performance together since October 2001. The Crowes have been officially on hiatus since January 2002. This
15900-443: The other parts of the track with headphones to keep the timing right. In the 2000s, with the advent of digital recording , it became possible for musicians to record their part of a song in another studio in another part of the world, and send their contribution over digital channels to be included in the final product. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing or multi-tracking are termed "live", even when done in
16050-438: The other parts using headphones ; with each part recorded as a separate track . Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, and lyrics or librettos . Historically, the term "album" was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage, the word was used for collections of short pieces of printed music from
16200-414: The other. The user would stack the two records onto the spindle of an automatic record changer, with side 1 on the bottom and side 2 (on the other record) on top. Side 1 would automatically drop onto the turntable and be played. When finished, the tone arm's position would trigger a mechanism which moved the arm out of the way, dropped the record with side 2, and played it. When both records had been played,
16350-484: The paper cover in small type were the words "Record Album". Now records could be stored vertically with the record not touching the shelf, and the term was applied to the collection. In the early nineteenth century, "album" was occasionally used in the titles of some classical music sets, such as Robert Schumann 's Album for the Young Opus 68, a set of 43 short pieces. With the advent of 78 rpm records in
16500-406: The primary medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves and many album covers or sleeves included numbers for the tracks on each side. On a compact disc the track number is indexed so that a player can jump straight to the start of any track. On digital music stores such as iTunes the term song is often used interchangeably with track regardless of whether there
16650-432: The publishers of photograph albums. Single 78 rpm records were sold in a brown heavy paper sleeve with a large hole in the center so the record's label could be seen. The fragile records were stored on their sides. By the mid-1920s, photo album publishers sold collections of empty sleeves of heavier paper in bound volumes with stiff covers slightly larger than the 10" popular records. (Classical records measured 12".) On
16800-483: The quartet slipped into the wings, Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein led Disco Biscuits guitarist Jon Gutwillig, String Cheese Incident keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth, Umphreys McGee guitarist Jake Cinninger and Russo through a series of Phish covers under the name the HeadCount All Stars. Brownstein, who has shied away from covering Phish over the years, described the group as his favorite band and led
16950-404: The record industry as a standard format for the "album". Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, it has remained the standard format for vinyl albums. The term "album" was extended to other recording media such as 8-track tape , cassette tape , compact disc , MiniDisc , and digital albums, as they were introduced. As part of
17100-452: The release and distribution Compact Discs . The 2010s saw a revival of Compact Cassettes by independent record labels and DIY musicians who preferred the format because of its difficulty to share over the internet . The compact disc format replaced both the vinyl record and the cassette as the standard for the commercial mass-market distribution of physical music albums. After the introduction of music downloading and MP3 players such as
17250-563: The road together, opened the evening with a band that consisted of Stax keyboardist Booker T. Jones, bassist Will Lee (Fab Faux, Late Show with David Letterman) and drummer Joe Russo, who recently spent time on the road with Potter along with his Duo partner Marco Benevento. The supergroup ran through a number of classic rock covers, including Crosby, Stills, Nash & Youngs "Find the Cost of Freedom", Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman" (a staple on Potters tour with Govt Mule) and Al Green's, "Take Me to
17400-538: 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
17550-764: The scene): Annabel Lukins The Fourth Annual Jammy Awards were held on March 16, 2004 at Madison Square Garden. It is most notable for the reunion of Black Crowes members Chris Robinson , Rich Robinson and Eddie Harsch which led to their revival of the Crowes in early 2005. The night kicked off with a performance of “Higher & Higher” by the Harlem Gospel Choir, which was soon joined by an expanded version of Soulive . The trio welcomed vocalist Reggie Watts of Maktub , trumpeter Rashawn Ross, tenor saxophonist Ryan Zoidis, alto saxophonist Cochemea “Cheme” Gastelum and percussionist Danny Sadownick. Next up
17700-509: 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
17850-572: The second stage included bassist Mike Gordon ( Phish ), guitarist Fuzz (Deep Banana Blackout), Randolph, saxophonists Skerik , Clayburn, Lurie, Tom Tom Club vocalists Mystic Bowie and Victoria Clamp and "Flute Girl." TDK Live Performance of the Year: Moe , Bonnaroo Music Festival , June 22, 2002 Tour of the Year: Trey Anastasio , Summer 2002 Studio Album of the Year: Trey Anastasio , Trey Anastasio Live Album of
18000-473: 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
18150-719: The show joined by Merl Saunders for a Grateful Dead tribute in which they performed " Scarlet Begonias ", then Strangefolk's Eric Glocker was replaced on stage with Percy Hill's John Leccese, at which point they jammed into "Fire on the Mountain." The Jammy Awards featured performers including The New Deal (band) , Frogwings , The Disco Biscuits & Les Claypool , Merl Saunders , John Scofield , Strangefolk , Susan Tedeschi , Deep Banana Blackout, Soulive m and The Slip . The Second Annual Jammys took place at Roseland Ballroom in New York City. The show featured more than five hours of non-stop music and presentations. "The idea for
18300-485: The show went on Tea Leaf Green made its Jammys debut with guest bassist Steve Adams (ALO) and fiddler Allie Kral (New Groove winner Cornmeal) for a rendition of their 2006 Jammy winning number, "Taught to be Proud." Big Head Todd's Todd Park Mohr and Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook also sat in with the expanded group on their songs "Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)" and "Tempted," respectively, the latter of which featured some choice guitar work by Haynes himself. Page McConnell, who
18450-448: The smaller 45 rpm format later in 1948 disrupted Columbia's expectations. By the mid-1950s, 45s dominated the singles market and 12" LPs dominated the album market and both 78s and 10" LPs were discontinued. In the 1950s albums of popular music were also issued on 45s, sold in small heavy paper-covered "gate-fold" albums with multiple discs in sleeves or in sleeves in small boxes. This format disappeared around 1960. Sinatra's "The Voice"
18600-426: The song to thunderous applause to take an extended solo, before leading the group into a jam uncharacteristic of the cover act. He remained onstage for the rest of the groups segment, which included a tease "Bungalow Bill" and "Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey." The rest of the night focused on Phish, both before and after the four members of the group took the stage to accept their award. After
18750-401: 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
18900-412: The stage for their second Jammys appearance, performing with Mad Professor and playing The Clash 's "Guns of Brixton," and its own "Buster". Co-hosts Hart and Bill Kreutzmann then performed an improv set which including "Iko Iko", while being joined by Mike Gordon , Kimock, Steven Perkins, Charlie Musselwhite , The Mutaytor, Baaba Maal , Angelique Kidjo and Bettye LaVette . The awards show came to
19050-511: The stage throughout the Phish community. All four members of Phish addressed the audience from the stage, beginning with Mike Gordon, who said that he was actually sick in bed until shortly before arriving at the venue. Both Page McConnell and Jon Fishman also delivered quick acceptance speeches, before handing over the microphone to Trey Anastasio, who thanked a number of key members in the Phish organization by name and described his former bandmates as his oldest friends. He also talked at length about
19200-482: The stage, along with the show’s host, Robert Randolph , who played guitar, and saxophonist James Carter for "Gimme Some Lovin'", one of Winwood's oldest hits, which he wrote at age 15 while in The Spencer Davis Group . Lifetime Achievement Award - Steve Winwood Live Album of the Year - Gov't Mule - The Deepest End Studio Album of the Year - Moe - Wormwood Song of
19350-759: The stage, with Gutwillig sharing a vocal duet with O’Connor. Also in the show, Peter Frampton , together with Guster and Martin Sexton performed "Do You Feel Like We Do". Lifetime Achievement: Buddy Guy Song of the Year: Umphrey's McGee , "In the Kitchen." New Groove of the Year: Benevento/Russo Duo Tour Of The Year: Phish , Summer 2004 Download of the Year: The Dead 6/12/04, Bonnaroo , Manchester, TN DVD of
19500-400: The strength and importance of the Phish community, before bowing alongside his bandmates and quietly exiting the stage. Anastasio’s appearance marked his first public showing outside upstate New York since entering a drug rehabilitation program in early 2007. Phish's emotional speech arrived near the end of the night. Co-hosts Warren Haynes and Grace Potter, who have spent the past few weeks on
19650-488: 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
19800-430: 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
19950-637: 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
20100-459: 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 a link that would not only unite bands themselves but also a very large community around them." By
20250-436: 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
20400-464: The user would pick up the stack, turn it over, and put them back on the spindle—sides 3 and 4 would then play in sequence. Record changers were used for many years of the LP era, but eventually fell out of use. 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8: commonly known as the eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, or simply eight-track) is a magnetic tape sound recording technology popular in the United States from
20550-770: The year: Yonder Mountain String Band Radio Show: "Jam Nation" (Radio 104, Hartford, CT ) Fan Website: www.Etree.org Festival: Gathering of the Vibes Topper/Zahn Award: Howie Schnee Mimi Fishman Memorial Award: Mockingbird Foundation Live Album: Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade : Live Frogs Set 1 Jam of the Year: Phil Lesh and Friends with Mike Gordon (12-31-00) Release of
20700-734: The year: "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Grateful Dead" Lifetime Achievement: George Porter Jr. and the Meters The Third Annual Jammy Awards were held October 2, 2002. It was presented by TDK , and took place at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City . The evening began with Rat Dog bassist Rob Wasserman and DJ Logic . Next was Rusted Root , DJ Logic and guitarist Melvin Sparks, who played "Send Me on My Way" and "Ecstasy", with host John Popper ( Blues Traveler ) adding harmonica. John Scofield
20850-467: Was Reid Genauer and the Assembly of Dust with Dickey Betts and Edie Brickell . The Disco Biscuits launched into their own "Rock Candy." Flavor Flav was originally scheduled to join the band, but he respectfully declined during the last week. So instead, Slick Rick came out and after Rock Candy, Rick and The Biscuits performed La Di Da Di. Rahzel was then booked, but could not make the gig due to
21000-452: Was a board chalked or painted white, on which decrees, edicts, and other public notices were inscribed in black. It was from this that in medieval and modern times, album came to denote a book of blank pages in which verses, autographs, sketches, photographs and the like are collected. This in turn led to the modern meaning of an album as a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item. The first audio albums were actually published by
21150-495: Was a further development of the similar Stereo-Pak four-track cartridge created by Earl "Madman" Muntz . A later quadraphonic version of the format was announced by RCA in April 1970 and first known as Quad-8, then later changed to just Q8. The Compact Cassette was a popular medium for distributing pre-recorded music from the early 1970s to the early 2000s. The first "Compact Cassette" was introduced by Philips in August 1963 in
21300-410: 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
21450-524: Was co-hosted by Grateful Dead drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann . 2004 JamOff winner Jonah Smith opened the ceremony with an hour-long set in the Theatre of Madison Square Garden’s lobby, while the Disco Biscuits autographed copies of the current issue of Relix magazine. The North Mississippi Allstars kicked off The Jammys proper with Umphrey's McGee drummer Kris Myers sitting in for Cody Dickinson. The North Mississippi Allstars also played
21600-497: Was co-hosted by Gov't Mule/Allman Brothers Band guitarist Warren Haynes and Grace Potter The four members of Phish stood onstage together for the first time since Coventry to accept the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 7th Jammy Awards. The surprise reunion followed an emotional speech from longtime Phish photographer (and Relix contributor) Danny Clinch, who stressed the importance of family both on and off
21750-399: Was issued in 1952 on two extended play 45s, with two songs on each side, in both packagings. The 10-inch and 12-inch LP record (long play), or 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. A single LP record often had the same or similar number of tunes as a typical album of 78s, and it was adopted by
21900-508: Was issued on both sides of a single record, Victor 55225 and ran for 8m 59s. By 1910, though some European record companies had issued albums of complete operas and other works, the practice of issuing albums was not widely taken up by American record companies until the 1920s. By about 1910, bound collections of empty sleeves with a paperboard or leather cover, similar to a photograph album, were sold as record albums that customers could use to store their records (the term "record album"
22050-469: Was joined by saxophonist Skerik ( Critters Buggin , Les Claypool’s Frog Brigade), drummer Stanton Moore ( Galactic , Garage A Trois ) and bassist Andy Hess ( Gov't Mule ). Pedal Steel guitarist Robert Randolph sat in with the Blind Boys of Alabama for " Amazing Grace ". Unannounced guest John Mayer collaborated with Randolph and Derek Trucks . Particle and Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson of
22200-464: Was one of the reasons that the band got back together in 2005. Earlier in the set, Chris Robinson joined the Mule for a rendition of Neil Young ’s "Southern Man", Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Steve Winwood and his band took the stage for the evening’s finale, which opened with "Different Light." For the final jam of the night, Betts and The String Cheese Incident’s Michael Kang returned to
22350-462: Was printed on some covers). These albums came in both 10-inch and 12-inch sizes. The covers of these bound books were wider and taller than the records inside, allowing the record album to be placed on a shelf upright, like a book, suspending the fragile records above the shelf and protecting them. In the 1930s, record companies began issuing collections of 78s by one performer or of one type of music in specially assembled albums, typically with artwork on
22500-439: Was the only member of Phish confirmed to play the Jammys in the weeks leading up to the event, led an all-star jazz combo that included drummer Roy Haynes, saxophonist James Carter, trumpeter and former Anastasio collaborator Nicholas Payton and bassist Christian McBride through two of his three recorded Phish originals: "Magilla" and "Cars Trucks Buses." Then Galactic balanced its jazz/funk past with its hip-hop present, inviting out
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