jam session
noun
: an often impromptu performance by a group especially of jazz musicians that is characterized by improvisation
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The singer’s 10-month-old son with wife Hailey Beiber, Jack Blues Bieber, made a cameo in a pair of pics JB posted on Monday morning (July 7) from what looks like a jam session in a recording studio.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 July 2025
After a jam session, Ralphs left Mott the Hoople and formed Bad Company with Rodgers, Kirke and King Crimson bassist/vocalist Boz Burrell.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 23 June 2025
At dawn, drummers and musicians gather on the steps of the amphitheatre and greet the earliest sunrise of the year with a grassroots jam session.
—Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 19 June 2025
In one scene, Wood and Keith Richards convene a 3 a.m. jam session at the New York studios of Atlantic Records.
—Reya Hart, The Atlantic, 15 June 2025
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 July 2025
After a jam session, Ralphs left Mott the Hoople and formed Bad Company with Rodgers, Kirke and King Crimson bassist/vocalist Boz Burrell.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 23 June 2025
At dawn, drummers and musicians gather on the steps of the amphitheatre and greet the earliest sunrise of the year with a grassroots jam session.
—Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 19 June 2025
In one scene, Wood and Keith Richards convene a 3 a.m. jam session at the New York studios of Atlantic Records.
—Reya Hart, The Atlantic, 15 June 2025
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“Jam session.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jam%20session. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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