jam session

jam session

1. slang An informal or impromptu gathering of musicians in which they play unrehearsed or improvised music together. I love this bar. A lot of talented musicians hang out here having jam sessions nearly every night of the week. Let's just have a little jam session and see if we've got the chemistry to make a record!
2. slang By extension, an informal or impromptu discussion or debate. The boss said he wanted to have a jam session with everyone to get to the bottom of the recent production problems. Toward the end of dinner, we all just started into a really wild jam session about the nature of consciousness and reality itself.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

jam session

an informal session where musicians play together. Andy and Nick had a jam session last night and kept all the neighbors awake.
See also: jam, session
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • by ear
  • a man for all seasons
  • season
  • zip gun
  • toss together
  • come as a revelation
  • come as/be a revelation
  • be a revelation
  • paths cross
  • cut a (wide) swath
References in periodicals archive
Leading a jam session for a rock group is more like facilitating, meaning you shouldn't have to do a whole lot.
Particular Matter(s) Jam Session, the realisation of which was made possible thanks to the support of Rolls-Royce, is a work that plunges us into the beauty and complexity of an invisible ballet, the one of the cosmic and terrestrial dust that surrounds us.
The jam sessions give them the chance to play alongside others for an audience, an opportunity they wouldn't have otherwise, he said.
Early jam session culture is often romanticized as a purely non-commercial form of music making with a myth of primitivism attached, meaning minimal formal training.
In the build-up to NBA Jam Session, the NBA and Flash will hold a series of grassroots basketball events across Abu Dhabi, beginning on November 29.
"Wahooo's first-ever Jam Session got a better response than we expected.
After the critique session, the tappers utilize the new steps and skills in a jam session. It creates a whole package, says Reich.
One of the Cisco TelePresence systems will be located directly on the show floor at the All-Star Jam Session, allowing fans to interact 'face-to-face' with NBA stars from the Convention Centre green room and backstage at the arena.
The 2004 EP Be Your Water feels almost as if Reagon is having a cool-out jam session before the evening set at a club.
Brummie Steve Winwood and Black Country blues-rocker Robert Plant, both aged 58, stole the show at the opening jam session.
This week, the artists joining Jools for a jam session include Richard Ashcroft, John Fogerty, We Are Scientists and hotly-tipped rapper Matisyahu.
Arceneaux's process is somwhat akin to a jam session, bouncing from one tangentially related idea to the next, a connection made explicit in The Immeasurable Equation, a drawing of the cosmic African-American philosopher-jazzman draped in ancient Egyptian-style regalia and surrounded by a galaxy of numerical notations.
When the girls are back in town, have a journal jam session to share your written words.
Following that he attacked all the walls of the park, throwing out inverts, charging frontside airs, an alley-oop kickflip over a hip, and much more during the eight-minute jam session.