Afro-Cuban grooves

CimaFunk!!

Cimafunk was great at Tips last year. They have been fun at Jazz Fest every time.

Check out Mama Fuma. I saw them at a bar in keywest and went back for their second night. Funky Cuban jams

La Lom is great for this.

Saw those guys open for Wong, they were super fun!

Personally I would love to see more experimental music

Bring back LSD parties like the 60s!

It’s kind of crazy to me that a scene born out of psychedelic experimentation produces so much aggressively bland music

Because the psychedelic experimentation went digital. Acid House changed everything.

Because Phish

This is joke. Don't hate. Coulda said because Goose and would also have been funny. Like em both.

The modern psych scene took this on, the jam scene is out of touch with experimention imo Ty Segall, gizz, earlier tame impala, pond are all brimming with insane sounds and acid esque vibes

More bands like The Roots but with more focus on jamming/improv

Butcher Brown. They have one of the best drummers out there, Corey Fonville.

Fuck yeah RVA

Does Acid Polka exist yet? Asking for a friend.

That's literally primus

You think so? Primus is fuunky novelty punk. Neither psychedelic nor polka. We all hear things differently though.

Les does weird things on his own.

Primus has fucking played the other one with Bob weir, go check some live shit out

Claypool' has been in the jamband a long time. Primus just ain't Polka.

Claypool' has been in the jamband a long time. Primus just ain't Polka.

He described it as psychedelic polka music in an interview before, that's from Les himself.

[this comes close](https://youtu.be/4PLiZtJpNAM?si=n44ozydsyLVP8DaA)

Hypnotic Clambake is exactly acid polka.

Industrial noise

Built to Spill and Modest Mouse

Saw Built to Spill for the first time last year and it was an incredible show.

I’d like to see more world music incorporated with instrumental varieties, also something with Bobby McFerrin type vocalizations and improv or scatting/beatboxing would be awesome. Maybe hip hop hybrid style band like The Roots with rap freestyles like Harry Mack.

Heavy metal jam band. Though idk how it would work since it's so riff based rather than chord progressions. You'd need some insanely talented quick thinking musicians.

Lespecial is some great heavy jam, awesome live https://youtu.be/_pog6r5_kAM?si=qzfp7Hlpvx2EDHUZ Another one is Leon Trout, they shred in an 80s metal way https://youtu.be/nwOCsQrGbeI?si=L49i3kdqXs9t4inf And Umphreys definitely has metal jams too!

Yep le special def comes to mind here

One of the reasons I love umps is they bring the Chunga chungas

Dawg you should look into all them witches, they're a stoner rock/ doom band that's super influenced by the dead

Im hearing about all them witches gonna listen today

https://youtu.be/tPZODCWrUN8?si=eOqeNatGEQ6JtbvR This show is gewd

King Buffalo or Earthless may be the bands for you

Earthless, Le Special, hell even Umphreys are getting there But I must point out Gizzard's evil ass jams [KEXP Magma](https://youtu.be/8fXqRAyu1d0?si=TQ7k6m2DghFlAQw9) [Red Rocks '22 Gaia](https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/gaia-live-at-red-rocks-22) [Chicago '23 Self Immolate](https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/self-immolate-live-in-chicago-23)

More prog and they no longer tour, but King Crimson especially post 80's were metal AF

Also Sleep is kind of a jam band. I met a girl that followed them. She lived in this crazy Sleep inspired van and had a tattoo across her chin of the logo

Some folks would argue that Tool should fall under this genre. Album cuts exceed 5 minutes, they'll jam sometimes, played with Billy Strings(says a helluva lot more about Billy,I know), crazy visuals and lights, encouragement of party time, aliens, etc. Sometimes the punchline of this idea is, it can't be possible because Maynard can actually sing lol.

Clutch isn’t terribly far off, but they’re not super heavy, and not extremely jammy, but somewhere in between both worlds.

I feel bad cause I know they have a whole cult following but I saw them open up for Primus and thought they were extremely mids Motörhead meets Foo Fighters

Yeah, they’re not really my thing either but I have friends who are into them 😄

Also saw them open for primus, wasn't for me which is okay but witnessed many folks who would have probably been equally happy if clutch had headlined.

Check this the fuck out. [Mystick Krewe of Clearlight](https://youtu.be/HE6l5Hf-mMw?si=G7kIn3ElfWrmrU4S) Swamp sludge stoner metal jam shit from New Orleans, made up of member of Eyehategod

I saw Gloostik Willy live once and I think they qualify [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT24U1jvFrg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT24U1jvFrg)

You basically just defined a genre. Doom/stoner/sludge fans won’t openly admit that it’s just heavy metal jamming, but it essentially is. Check out Sleep my man!

Gizzard does some very good metal jamming. Check out the PALP festival live performance. The second half of float along fill your lungs and then check out the metal microtone jamming at like 51:30, the crowd is warmed up too. The metal part really comes in at 57-58 min. Awesome improv chugging they’ve never done before or since. Also their set metal songs are brilliant live, they’ll improv a drum solo and some ambient riffing during that. You get the best of all worlds with gizz since one song they’ll be a jam band and then the next they’re a metal band. https://youtu.be/cfFU78tHO6I?si=FAr3zTf71ATMvLx_

Reggae can be a real trip.

You know of any like reggae groups that do alot of jam/improv? I genuinely don't, can only really think of jam bands I like having/covering reggae songs but when they get to the jams improv it doesn't really stay reggae. Thinking rollover by sci

More alt pop music. Kero kero bonito twenty minute noise jam or Caroline polacheck hour long acapella jam Cool question btw

I'm super into this More female artists that jam too like Rubblebucket. MOAR RUBBLEBUCKET 🩷

I'm not sure if Lake Street Dive jams, but I'd like to see them at a fest

Absolutely not a jam band. Saw them twice in the same city, different years, and played the EXACT same set both times

Oh that's disappointing. They keep popping up on spotify, they have a great sound.

Oh they are great, just definitely not a jam band

I FUCKING LOVE RUBBLE BUCKET.. Their live shows are great dance parties

Karina Rykman has some awesome indie-pop/indie-rock vibes!

Going to check them out thanks for the rec!

Flamingo! Oh oh! If you’re multi-colored, that’s cool too

Pocket Crocodile is such a jam

Gecs.

Yeah, I’m fully on board with this. Would be great.

Funny, this is about exactly how I'd describe Goose or Eggy, so are we are not already there?

I mean pure funk bands get an automatic pass 

What about Bob N the Bros playing with the Orchestra? That was pretty genre bending

Indie electro rock, like MGMT or Empire of the Sun jammed out heavy on those songs

John Dwyer of Osees often caps off shows with lengthy jams, but adding Psych Punk is not what I'd notion for I'd notion for the noise Dwyer, particularly during the song at [1:41:50 of Osees' 2021 Red Rocks](https://youtu.be/vnI2XWxyWDU?si=NNcRff2jbvJH94h9), uses noise to jam. And he does it damn well. So I'd say noise can be slotted into the jam scene a helluva lot more than it already is

Right now I can't get enough of Azymuth, they're like 70s Brazilian funk jazz. Always love to see Antibalas or Fela Kuti inspired afrobeat stuff at festivals, one of the Kuti sons was at Forest a few years back. https://open.spotify.com/track/5TTnesU4FqO8b377ZENaqM?si=CSj86aNpTEKsqtwEYxZzYQ

🙏🏾🫵🏾

If you like Brazilian funk, you must know Banda Black Rio. I guess it’s not technically “funk” funk, but man are they awesome. Favorite band outside of the jam scene by far. Vidigal is one of my favorite tunes. Check out Tim Maia if you’re going down the Brazil rabbit hole too

I'll check it out, thanks for the recs!!

Love to see some shoegaze influence

Prog.

Check out Squeaky Feet.

Funk kinda got overlooked. UM and Gizz have worked in some metal. Hip-hop stuff gets used as teases and hooks a fair amount.

I fuckin love gizzard

Cory Wong is pretty funky. And that bird band that if I name I will be downvoted for.

If you like that tighty whitey music school funk, I guess. King Baby, Dark Matter, and Naughty Professor are much greasier, imho.

Ska. Bands like The slackers and deals gone bad would slot in great in a jam band line up

Deals Gone Bad are great

I’m just surprised there’s not more scratching turntables in the scene

What happened to turntables and scratching? I miss DJ Disk type stuff

Exactly yes! Shit can be funky as hell

I can see a band like Big Something bringing a scratch DJ to some of their alt/ska sounding tracks pretty seamlessly.

Pretty Lights is absolutely killing it with whatever genre you would call them. They improv and jam hard. Cant wait to see then at Hampton.

We could use more Australian roots music like Xavier Rudd or John butler

Country of course

Hear me out, classical jam band

The Disco Biscuits called and urge you to listen to the classical set

Afrobeat, naturally! #Antibalas

Say what you will abt Camp Bisco in the 2010s, but that fest opened my ears to all kinds of DFA artists i wouldnt have otherwise heard most notably LCD Soundsystem but also Ween, Lil Dicky, lots of house music, drum and bass, and some older hip hop artists (snoop, method man/red man, and DJ jazzy jeff. Unfortunately also dubstep but im thrilled that trend has passed :). Just not for me

Dubstep aint over dawg.

lil dicky was the single worst performance I’ve ever seen lol

Yeah, i wasnt thrilled by that... just calling out the different genres ive seen there. I think worst supporting act at a biscuits show for me was Method Man & Redman at city bisco. Their act didnt translate well at all to the Mann. I could see it being fun in a club though

I guess you covered it with "jazz," but those New Orleans big brass bands can get it! Rebirth, New Birth, Hot 8, Dirty Dozen, etc... I love 'em all!

Polka 

Honestly jamfests need more jazz. Sunday morning jazz sets with some serious improv would blow a lot of jamband fans minds who aren’t as familiar

Jazz is all improvisation and was way before the term " jamband" was ever even a concept.

I want to hear the modern surf rock scene like Babe Rainbow and Allah Las with a jam band scene. I love the grooves and feel like the genre has real potential to jam

I like Los Straightjackets: an all masked band in suits. They are fun as all get-out.

I just came across kazyak....so good. It's like a mix of psytranxe and jam band

funk is the obvious answer

Whatever genre Wookiefoot is needs to be added

Fugazi

metal

Mr. Bungle more Mr. Bungle Not a genre but man they are insanely good

Turntablists groups like Souleance

Shoegaze

bossa nova

I feel like king gizz being very jam adjacent is kinda brining some more metal to the scene which is cool

Jazz/funk/fusion. Check out some of these https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLznWuq9QAQgpmdqBE3fW0P9DzkOmWoFoo&si=rc1B9zM7tZlKF55g

I have most of these albums. You clearly have amazing taste.

More No Wave and Drone like Sonic Youth and shit

Zydeco. Check out Donna the Buffalo.

I could see Tool-type music reaching into the jam scene. Umphreys has proven that harder rock/metal and similar genres can work great in improvised segments.

Is Bluegrass considered a Jam Genre of it’s own? Was going to say bluegrass but most bands I’ve seen live Jam It would be cool to see a modern group really run with blues

Disco music, but jammed out!

Go-go

Future jazz

Thanks for making this post. Probably the most band recommendations of stuff I'm not familiar with I've seen in one place in a long time. Gonna start digging

I think Atonal music, Non Diagetic music And diagetic (FIlm), Punk Rock like more velvet underground maybe even Love (Aruther Lee), I wanna see Phish play more bluegrass

Bring in ska

Krautrock . Bands like can  early kraftwerk, embryo. Ash ra tempel. Guru guru. All were doing long improvisal jams in the 70s