List of jam bands explained

The following is a list of notable 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

0–9

• 7 Walkers

A

• Acoustic Syndicate
• Al and The Transamericans
• Allman Brothers Band
• Amfibian
• Animal Liberation Orchestra
• Aquarium Rescue Unit
• Assembly of Dust
• Ataxia

B

• Back Door Slam
• BadBadNotGood
• The Band
• Band of Gypsys
• Banyan
• Barefoot Truth
• Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
• Benevento/Russo Duo
• Bernie Worrell & the Woo Warriors
• Big Something
• Big Tasty
• Billy Strings
• Big Head Todd and the Monsters
• Billy and the Kids
• The Big Wu
• BK3
• Black Midi
• The Black Crowes
• Blackberry Smoke
• Blues Project
• Blues Traveler
• Bobby and the Midnites
• The Bomb Squad
• BoomBox
• The Brakes
• The Brew
• The Bridge
• Buckethead
• Brothers Past

C

• The Cardinals
• Carl Broemel
• Caravan
• CBDB
• Centipede
• Chris Robinson Brotherhood
• Clutch
• The Codetalkers
• Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
• Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
• Consider the Source
• Country Joe and the Fish

D

• Dark Star Orchestra
• Dave Matthews Band
• David Nelson Band
• The Dead
• Dead & Company
• 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
• The Doobie Brothers

E

• The Egg
• Ekoostik hookah
• El Michels Affair
• Electric Apricot
• ELO
• The Electric Co.
• EOTO
• The Expendables

F

• Family Groove Company
• Fat Freddy's Drop
• Fleetwood Mac
• Freddy Jones Band
• Fungus Amungus
• Furthur
• Future Rock

G

• G. Love & Special Sauce
• G-Nome Project
• Gabe Dixon Band
• Galactic
• Garage A Trois
• Garaj Mahal
• Ghosts of Jupiter
• Ghost Light
• Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
• Glass Harp
• God Street Wine
• Gong
• Goose
• Gov't Mule
• Grateful Dead
• Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
• The Grapes
• Greensky Bluegrass
• Guerilla Toss

H

• Heart of Gold Band
• The Heavy Pets
• Hootie & the Blowfish
• Hot Buttered Rum
• Hot Tuna
• Hypnotic Clambake

I

• Infamous Stringdusters
• Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk

J

• Jack Johnson
• Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
• Jam Camp
• Jazz Is Dead
• Jazz Mandolin Project
• Jefferson Airplane
• Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
• Jerry Garcia Band
• JGB
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• The Jimmy Swift Band
• Joe Russo's Almost Dead
• John Brown's Body
• The John Butler Trio
• Jupiter Coyote

K

• King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
• Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
• Keller Williams
• Khruangbin
• Kingfish
• Kikagaku Moyo
• Kudzu Kings
• KVHW

L

• Lake Trout
• Leaf Hound
• Leftover Salmon
• Legion of Mary
• Les Claypool
• Lettuce
• Little Barrie
• Little Feat
• Liquid Soul
• Lotus

M

• Maktub
• Man
• The Marshall Tucker Band
• Matisyahu
• Matt Schofield
• Max Creek
• The McLovins
• Medeski Martin & Wood
• Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
• Mercury Rev
• Michael Franti & Spearhead
• Mickey Hart
• Mike Gordon
• moe.
• Mofro
• Molly Hatchet
  • Moshav The Motet
• The Mother Hips
• Moon Taxi
• Mr. Blotto
• My Morning Jacket

N

• New Deal
• New Grass Revival
• New Riders of the Purple Sage
• New Monsoon
• Nickel Creek
• North Mississippi All-Stars
• The New Mastersounds

O

• Old & In the Way
• Oteil Burbridge
• The Other Ones
• Oysterhead
• Ozric Tentacles
• O.A.R.

P

• Particle
• Pat McGee Band
• Paul Butterfield Blues Band
• Perpetual Groove
• Phil Lesh and Friends
• Phish
• Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
• Polyphonic Spree
• Pnuma Trio
• Pseudopod

Q

• The Quark Alliance
• Quicksilver Messenger Service^[2]

R

• The Radiators
• Railroad Earth
• RAQ
• Ratdog
• Reconstruction
• Return to Forever
• Rhythm Devils
• Robert Randolph and the Family Band
• Rodrigo Y Gabriela
• Roster McCabe
• Rubber Souldiers
• Rusted Root
• RX Bandits

S

• Santana
• The Samples
• Schleigho
• SerialPod
• Sister Hazel
• Slightly Stoopid
• The Slip
• Soulhat
• Soulfarm
• Soulive
• Soul Rebels Brass Band
• Sound Tribe Sector 9
• Spafford
• Spyro Gyra
• The Spin Doctors
• State Radio
• Steve Kimock Band
• Stockholm Syndrome
• Strangefolk
• The String Cheese Incident
• Sublime

T

• Tauk
• Tea Leaf Green
• Tedeschi Trucks Band
• Ten Ton Chicken
• Ten Years After
• The Bright Light Social Hour
• The New Mastersounds
• Traffic
• Trampled By Turtles
• Trey Anastasio Band
  • Trigon Twiddle
• Traveling Wilburys

U

• Umoja Orchestra
• Umphrey's McGee

V

• Vampire Weekend
• Vetiver
• Vida Blue
• Vulfpeck

W

• War
• The Waybacks
• Ween
• The Werks
• Widespread Panic
• Cory Wong
• The Word

X

• Xavier Rudd

Y

• Yonder Mountain String Band

Z

• Zac Brown Band
• Zach Gill
• Zero
• Zilla
• ZOX

See also

• Lists of musicians
• List of guitars

Notes and References

1. Web site: What is a jam band? . 2007-02-02 . Jambands.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20070124191643/http://www.jambands.com/jamband.html . January 24, 2007 . dead .
2. News: . Quicksilver Messenger Service's LIVE AT THE OLD MILL TAVERN - MARCH 29, 1970 Recording Set for 8/27 Release . Broadway World . August 13, 2013 . January 21, 2019 .