Here, musicians often perform impromptu jam sessions while couples dance either the chacarera or zamba.

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Organizations need to create similar room for jam sessions as Steve Jobs so deeply understood.

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In jazz, learning and ideas for innovation take place in jam sessions, the creative equivalent of conversations in 19th-century coffeehouses.

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Recently, Papa Dee has travelled the world in his own TV series - a music documentary featuring jam sessions with local musicians.

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Iowa-raised singer-songwriter Greg Brown came to music through jam sessions hosted at his family's house, and his recording career dates back to 1974.

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The festival's club, which has hosted some legendary late-night jam sessions over the years, will make a return to its original home, the Quality Hotel.

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Further east in Chaoyang district, the rough and ready 2 Kolegas, with its graffiti-daubed walls, is a classic underground club that stages punk gigs and live jam sessions.

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Mainly established to serve as an advocate service, the union building also became a social gathering place, and eventually the tradition of late-night jam sessions was born.

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Floratone started with flashes of improvisation, two musicians riffing live and unscripted in the studio and when those jam sessions ended, the veteran producers Lee Townsend and Tucker Martine got busy.

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To hear traditional and contemporary indigenous music live, make a stop at the Dulan Sugar Factory Cafe, a former sugar factory that has been converted into a performance space for indigenous singers who hold impromptu jam sessions and welcome visitors to join in.

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