The first session of 2020! Although there was considerable instrument overlap due to the large group (10 participants!) including two newcomers, this was a fun and lighthearted session with many improvised and original songs. Tasty Vietnamese food rounded out the evening.

Session link:
http://jammers.tacoyama.com/content/february-2020-session

The last session of 2019, and what a session it was! We made some incredibly rockin', crazy, festive, and silly Christmas songs, including a screamingly good Jingle Bells, a rocking raucous rendition of Zat You Santa Claus, and a very "special" Last Christmas (which may be my most favorite rendition ever). An incredible way to send off 2019!
Session link: http://jammers.tacoyama.com/content/december-2019-session

November's jam was a 'mustache' jam. Why? Because we had mustaches. Due to an operational error or two a few good songs were not recorded, which is a shame. Nonetheless, it was still a very fun and silly jam with many excellent improvised originals and covers performed. Here is a link to the session page: http://jammers.tacoyama.com/content/november-2019-session

The theme for this month's session was "Queen" (as in the band), and after a number of takes we managed to hammer out a very decent cover! Apart from the Queen tracks, we were also able to put together a number of very impressive improvised original songs. It's very hard to believe these songs were completely original, unrehearsed, and totally improvised! Here is the session link: http://jammers.tacoyama.com/content/october-2019-session

The theme for this session was, "End of Summer." As such, we attempted a few summery tunes and surf numbers. Some very fine improvised songs in here as well. All in all, it was suitably raucous way to send off the summer! View the session page here

This was fun session with some new faces. Many different music genres were explored at this jam. Is three bassists too many? You can never have to many bassists! It's a good thing we have some ultra-talented multi-instrumentalists in the group! Link to session page is here.

For this session we tried a different studio, Go'n, for a change. The spacious reception area served doubled as a relaxing break room between songs. Overall, a great blues session with some rockin' harmonica tunes. Session page link is here.

To celebrate the sakura season we held our first ever hanami session outdoors in the park. It turned out that due to cold weather the sakura were only sparsely blooming, but we still had a good time. Lot's of good eats--including numerous tasty homemade treats-- and drinks were had by all! The chilly weather made it hard to play instruments somewhat so we didn't play too many songs, but we still managed to attract a small audience anyway. Session link here.

Another awesome jam, and with eight participants (two newcomers) no less! A really fantastic way to start off the new year! The theme was more or less,"A Tribute to Dead Giants," (i.e. we honor great musicians who passed on the previous year by covering their songs) but we ended up just playing anything we felt. Great food and drinks at the afterparty too!

We just finished up our annual Christmas session! The overall mood was very festive and jolly and everyone was rocking and grooving to the holiday spirit. A record number of Christmas and holiday-themed songs were played, and we all even wore santa hats! Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Yoi otoshi wo!