How to Use jam band in a Sentence

jam band

noun
  • Grahame Lesh had a front row seat to one of the country’s most cherished jam bands as a kid.
    — Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 July 2025
  • The jam band movement had taken shape, and Weir would remain firmly a part of it.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Where their peers all fit neatly into the rock genre, the Dead created their own, the jam band.
    — Brian Halligan, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Marshall was soon welcomed into the scruffy jam band’s inner circle.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • An iconic ‘90s jam band is set to make its return to the Kansas City area for the first time in a decade.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026
  • While the group has long been regarded as a jam band, its music is thankfully free of the extended noodling too often endemic to the genre.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Phish is a jam band with a loyal and enthusiastic fanbase that first became popular in the 90s.
    — Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Weir responded by developing a style unlike any previous rock guitarist, and one that even most contemporary jam bands can’t replicate.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Dave Matthews Band shows were one of the things that once defined The Meadows, and now the ever-popular world music pop/rock jam band has returned.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
  • On the opposite end of the spectrum is the iconic jam band Phish, an improvisational hydra that has made a four-decade career out of free forms like psychedelic rock and jazz fusion.
    — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Weir and the Dead influenced a new generation of jam bands, including Phish, Widespread Panic and Goose.
    — Adam Levine, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The effect could remind one of jam bands, yes, but also of the unconscious cerebral shiftings of psych rock, where every instrument lysergically trembles a little outside of itself.
    — Ivy Nelson, Pitchfork, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Over the years, the festival has largely featured acts from across the EDM and dance spectrum, with jam bands, rock groups, pop acts, and hip-hop artists occasionally taking the stage as well.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026
  • Devotees of Phish were thrilled to discover that a previously uncirculated 1990 show by the jam band is included.
    — ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Devotees of Phish were thrilled to discover that a previously uncirculated 1990 show by the jam band is included.
    — ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Examples of classic guitar styles are easy to find, with the nearly 50-year-old local jam band Max Creek opening this year’s outdoor Hartford Live!
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
  • After sets from intergenerational jam bands and folk-rock legends, the newest resident at Las Vegas’ Sphere will be a little louder and nastier than usual.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Local Grateful Dead fans are in for a massive treat this weekend as Gillian Welch and David Rawlings celebrate the legendary jam band’s music during three big shows.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Beloved jam band Phish are paying tribute to the victims of a gruesome stabbing that took place outside their concert at the Hampton Coliseum in Virginia on Friday.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In a career spanning six decades, Weir was key to developing the Grateful Dead from garden-variety psychedelic rockers as the Warlocks to godfathers of the jam band genre.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2026
  • In a career spanning six decades, Weir was key to developing the Grateful Dead from garden-variety psychedelic rockers as the Warlocks to godfathers of the jam band genre.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Another thing that a lot of these jam band fans love is drugs — tripping, smoking weed, rolling on MDMA, doing peyote or ayahuasca, and eventually many of them loved smoking crack and shooting heroin.
    — David Manheim, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The festival takes place at Double JJ Resort and features dozens of DJs and bands, mostly within the EDM and jam band genres.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 29 June 2026
  • Atlanta native Zac Brown founded the Zac Brown Band in 2002 and built a following through heavy touring, playing country and rock clubs as well as jam band festivals.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Bob Weir, the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the Grateful Dead, whose songs about sunshine daydreams and truckin’ helped turn the jam band into a 60-year musical empire, has died at age 78.
    — Richard Gehr, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2026
  • There were plans for the popular jam band Goose to follow last fall, but the city—already on edge amid the violence wrought by the presence of ICE—required additional security measures that proved impossible to meet.
    — Jimmy Jellinek, SPIN, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The stage had been warmed up by the always-excellent jam band Goose; their pairing with Mayer creating a Sunday demographic shift that saw the dance fans of Friday and Saturday transition to a generally older crowd.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Goose held a moment of silence before the jam band’s Central Park concert Sunday to honor fan Paul Kueker a day after his fatal fall off a Madison Square Garden balcony during a show.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026
  • Mega jam band Phish will return to its traditional perch at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City this summer after a tryout at Boulder’s Folsom Field last year.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
  • With Allmans keyboardist Chuck Leavell and bassist Lamar Williams, a school friend who had replaced Oakley, Jaimoe joined Sea Level, a largely instrumental jam band that made several albums.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026

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