JamKazam News

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.

 

Calendar of Live Concert Broadcasts  (Let Us Live Broadcast You!)
Following is our upcoming live concert broadcast schedule, with band members playing from their homes over the Internet in JamKazam online sessions, and using JamKazam’s built-in features to broadcast/simulcast their live concert performance.

  • No Latency – Thursday December 4 at 7pm CT
    In the mid-eighties, two brothers and their best friend formed a band and played many clubs on the circuit on Long Island, NY. After a successful run, they eventually moved on to career and families. Fast forward forty years and a one-off band reunion at a block party turns into a reincarnation of the band, with new members and a reinvigorated drive to perform. The band was named No Latency, as this is the ultimate goal for rehearsing online and for life in general. No Latency plays the songs you remember and love from the 80’s and 90’s, as well as modern versions of earlier classics, plus great original songs that will instantly become your favorites. The No Latency band features Rich on vocals, Jim on bass, Marc on keys, Chris on drums, and Steve on guitar.
  • ReSYNC – Thursday December 11 at 7pm CT
    ReSYNC comprises musicians from Texas, Georgia, Vermont and Virginia who met on JamKazam in 2020, have played together there consistently since, but have never played together in person. The band primarily covers material from Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Tool, Alice in Chains, Audioslave and Creed. Band members include Billy Crash (drums), Bill Shouldice (bass), John Bird (vocals) and Greg Gonzalez (guitar). You can check the event link for a set list of songs in this concert. This concert will feature a different set of songs than the band’s first live broadcast event.

 

If you want to check out our recent live broadcasts, you can click here to watch Zed City (a Vancouver area trio) or click here to watch the first concert performance by 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

EU Hosted Sessions

 

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!

Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers by ZZ Top, performed and broadcast live on JamKazam by Zed City.

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.

 

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