Hi JamKazammers –
Read on for the latest software updates, blog posts, upcoming hosted events, 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 (each 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 (each 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.
New Features & Fixes
This week we cut over the beta website we’ve been building to replace the previous version of the website. This new website users our new user interface and design style, and it’s optimized for both desktop and mobile devices, so you can use many JamKazam features on your phone. Check out a short video showing some of the new website features. We also released a new marketing website at https://www.jamkazam.com to help draw more new users into the JamKazam community.
Latest From The Blog
Our new website includes a blog, and we’ll be using the blog to post articles that help our community better understand and get the most from using JamKazam, among other things. Our first blog post starts a series of articles that discuss the subject of latency in online music performance and how JamKazam uniquely addresses this thorny issue. Check out the first blog post in this series here: Latency – Part 1 – Understanding Latency in Online Music Performance.
Upcoming Events
We have 21 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
- Blues Session – Monday, March 10 at 7pm CT
- Country Session – Tuesday, March 11 at 2pm CT
- Jazz Session – Wednesday, March 12 at 7pm CT
- Oldies (50s/60s/70s Music) Session – Thursday, March 13 at 2pm CT
- Eagles Session – Thursday, March 13 at 7pm CT
- Beatles Session – Thursday, March 13 at 7pm CT
- The Realm Free Improv Session – Saturday, March 15 at 5pm CT
- Bluegrass Session – Sunday, March 16 at 2pm CT
- Blues Session – Monday, March 17 at 7pm CT
- Country Session – Tuesday, March 18 at 2pm CT
- Tom Petty Session – Tuesday, March 18 at 7pm CT
- Grateful Dead Session – Wednesday, March 19 at 7pm CT
- Rolling Stones Session – Wednesday, March 19 at 7pm CT
- Oldies (50s/60s/70s Music) Session – Thursday, March 20 at 2pm CT
- Pink Floyd Session – Thursday, March 20 at 7pm CT
- Rush Session – Thursday, March 20 at 7pm CT
- The Realm Free Improv Session – Saturday, March 22 at 5pm CT
- Bluegrass Session – Sunday, March 23 at 2pm CT
EU Hosted Sessions
- Jazz Session – Tuesday, March 11 at 8pm CET (Central European Time)
- Bluegrass Session – Tuesday, March 18 at 8pm CET
South America Hosted Sessions
- Tango Session – Thursday, March 13 at 6pm CT
This session will include both instruction and performance, so you don’t need to already be familiar with playing tango! Musicians welcome from US as well.
If you’d like to host a session for musicians in Europe, South America, Australia, Japan, or another region too far from the US to play well in sync, please email us at support@jamkazam.com, and we’ll work with you on it!
Session Recordings & Live Broadcasts
Following are some recording excerpts from hosted sessions above, as well as JamKazam recordings made by members of the community. Come to a session to join the fun!
Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. So Far Away by Carole King. Crazy Fingers by the Grateful Dead. Escape Plan ’88 by Short Straps. Babylon by David Gray, performed by Vince Freeman & Friends. Byzantium by Before The Calm.
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.
- A Tribe Called Quest – 5 total (4 new)
- Air Supply – 5 total (5 new)
- Alan Walker – 9 total (9 new)
- Beck – 7 total (6 new)
- Billie Eilish – 8 total (8 new)
- Cole Porter – 12 total (7 new)
- David Bowie – 23 total (10 new)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer – 7 total (6 new)
- Florence + The Machine – 6 total (4 new)
- Guns N’ Roses – 11 total (6 new)
- Herbie Hancock – 8 total (8 new)
- Imagine Dragons – 10 total (7 new)
- Jason Aldean – 7 total (6 new)
- Jay-Z – 17 total (13 new)
- Kraftwerk – 5 total (5 new)
- Limp Bizkit – 9 total (9 new)
- Michael Jackson – 23 total (11 new)
- Nine Inch Nails – 4 total (4 new)
- Ozzy Osbourne – 13 total (8 new)
- Pixies – 9 total (9 new)
- E.M. – 18 total (9 new)
- The Strokes – 9 total (9 new)
- Talking Heads – 8 total (5 new)
- Vance Joy – 7 total (7 new)
- Weezer – 7 total (6 new)
- ZZ Top – 20 total (6 new)
Kudos & Stories
2025 marks the fourth year that my friends and I have subscribed to JamKazam. We think it is an amazing platform and a modern miracle, and we thank you and your team for developing and administering it. I look forward to continuing to participate, spread the word, and assist in any way I can to optimize the experience for JamKazammers.
- Gary E.
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