Hi JamKazammers –
Read on for the latest software updates, blog posts, upcoming hosted online sessions, recordings/broadcasts, JamTracks catalog updates, and more.
Office Hours
We continue to offer two weekly office hours sessions for anyone who needs help.
- JamKazam Session Office Hours (Every Tuesday 7-8pm US Central Time)
If you have our app installed and your gear set up, you can join this JamKazam session as a safe space with a JamKazam support team member to experience and learn how to play in online sessions, or to ask questions about particular features or issues you’re having. To find this session, start the JamKazam app, click the Find Session tile, then click the Open Jams tile, and look for the session called “JamKazam Office Hours”, and click the Join icon on this session. - Zoom Office Hours (Every Wednesday 11am-12pm US Central Time)
If you haven’t set up your gear yet and need help getting started, you can join this Zoom meeting room to ask a JamKazam support team member any questions you have. Don’t be shy, we’re here to help! To join the Zoom, click this link on any Wednesday at the time above.
Feature Updates
- More reliable VIDEO!
We are happy (relieved, lol?) to announce that we have completed a major upgrade to our video feature set, focused on improving video reliability. We conducted a very deep and thorough cycle on video, and found and fixed numerous issues, both small and large. If you have had trouble with our video features in the past, we’d encourage you to try using video again, and let us know if you have any problems.
Calendar of Live Concert Broadcasts (Let Us Live Broadcast You!)
We have taken a break from live broadcasts thru the balance of the holiday season, but if you want to check out our recent live broadcasts, you can click here to watch the No Latency band (New York area), click here to watch Zed City (a Vancouver area trio) or click here to watch the ReSYNC band (musicians from Texas, Georgia, Vermont and Virginia).
If you have a band or informal group that rehearses and plays on JamKazam, we would love to live broadcast a performance by your group, and promote it both to the JamKazam community and more broadly across our social channels. We can handle the broadcast for you, so that you just show up and play like usual. Or you can broadcast yourselves, and we can simply promote it. You can be anywhere from awesome to amateurish – it’s all good! We’ve found people really love to see bands playing live like this. Send us an email at support@jamkazam.com, and we can chat with you about getting you ready to roll!
Calendar of Hosted Sessions
We have the following hosted session events planned for the next couple weeks. Click a link below for more information. If you want a session for a particular artist or genre you don’t see listed, drop us a note at support@jamkazam.com.
If you can’t access the event links below on Facebook, here’s how to find and join these sessions. Open the JamKazam app at the start date/time of the session you want to join. Click on Find Session on the app home page, then click on Open Jams. You’ll see a list of currently active public/open sessions, and you should see the name of the event listed among our sessions – e.g. “Blues Session” or whichever one you’re interested in. Click the Join icon next to that session.
US Hosted Sessions
- Country Session – Tuesday, January 13 at 2pm CT
- Blues Session – Wednesday, January 14 at 7pm CT
- Grateful Dead Session – Thursday, January 15 at 7pm CT
- The Realm Free Improv Session – Saturday, January 17 at 5pm CT
- Country Session – Tuesday, January 20 at 2pm CT
- Metal & Hard Rock Session – Wednesday, January 21 at 7pm CT
- Oldies (50s/60s/70s Music) Session – Thursday, January 22 at 2pm CT
- West Coast Jazz Session – Thursday, January 22 at 6pm PT
- The Realm Free Improv Session – Saturday, January 24 at 5pm CT
EU Hosted Sessions
- EU Jazz Session – Tuesday, January 13 at 8pm (UTC+01)
- EU Singer-Songwriter Session – Thursday, January 15 at 7pm (UTC+01)
If you’d like to host a session for a specific genre or artist or playlist, please email us at support@jamkazam.com, and we’ll work with you on it!
Past Session Recordings & Live Broadcasts
Following are some recording excerpts from hosted and private sessions, as well as JamKazam recordings and live broadcasts made by members of the community. Come to a session to join the fun!
Check out our live broadcast links above for some tasty recordings from recent broadcast sessions!
If you’d like to send us a recording or live broadcast of a JamKazam performance that we can share with the community, please send us an email at support@jamkazam.com with a link to your recording/broadcast.
JamTracks Catalog
We have added new songs to our JamTracks catalog. Learn about our JamTracks to see how you can play along with your favorite artists and songs. Below is a list of artists with total songs available per artist, and how many of these are new to the catalog. Click an artist link to preview the JamTracks available for that artist
- Blur – 5 total (3 new)
- Boygenius – 2 total (2 new)
- Cheap Trick – 4 total (2 new)
- Conway Twitty – 4 total (4 new)
- Curtis Mayfield – 2 total (2 new)
- Dan Fogelberg – 3 total (3 new)
- Demi Lovato – 8 total (6 new)
- Elliott Smith – 2 total (2 new)
- Gin Blossoms – 4 total (2 new)
- Haim – 5 total (5 new)
- Huey Lewis & The News – 8 total (4 new)
- Jazz Standards – 21 total (21 new)
- JJ Grey & Mofro – 3 total (3 new)
- Kelly Clarkson – 10 total (5 new)
- Major Lazer – 5 total (5 new)
Finally, if you have kudos or a story to share, please send us an email at support@jamkazam.com. And as always, thanks for being part of the JamKazam community.
Best Regards,
Team JamKazam