JAMBAND
Jam band
Jam bands are musical groups whose live albums and concerts relate to a unique fan culture that began in the 1960s with The Grateful Dead, and continued in the 1990s with bands like Dispatch. The performances of these bands often feature extended musical improvisation over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns, and long sets of music that cross genre boundaries.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Jam band
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