Welcome back!  For the second installment of Jam Friendly Jazz, we will look at some of jazz's required listening.  Now, to give a comprehensive list of "essentials" is impossible;  jazz is an illimitable genre of music who's history can be studied at university levels (I know, because I studied it

Starting from about age fifteen(ish), until a few years ago,  I almost exclusively listened to jam bands, and jam adjacent bands. Now I make no secret about my obsession with Phish and The Dead, and I still love the handful of late 90's jam bands that cut my musical

My Morning Jacket are some of rock's last rockers.  In an era where the sound du jour is DIY minimalism, MMJ creates sprawling anthems designed to saturate arenas and emotions.  They are powerful; not unlike the timeless rockstars that have planted their flag on the FM radio dial.  This is

In an alternate universe, Phish would be pulling up into Pelham, AL to blow the doors off of Oak Mountain Amphitheatre as I type this sentence.  After a quality New Years run, and impressive outing in Mexico, I had high hopes for 2020, thinking that Trey would take the work