jam session

Japanese: jam session(英語表記)jamsession
jam session

...Also, due to various restrictions and successive conscription orders, it became difficult to maintain big bands that required many members, so bands became combos (compositions of about 3 to 8 people). Players from the Midwest and other parts of the United States gathered in clubs in Harlem, a black neighborhood in New York, and jam sessions (groups formed voluntarily and gathered to improvise and compare their skills) were held every night. From this, a new performance style based on the ingenuity of each other, bebop (also called bop for short), was born. ...

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Japanese:

…また各種の統制と相次ぐ召集令によって,多人数のメンバーを必要とするビッグ・バンドの維持は困難となり,バンドはコンボcombo(3~8人程度の編成)化した。中西部その他,全米各地から集まったプレーヤーによって,ニューヨークの黒人街ハーレムのクラブでは毎夜ジャム・セッションjam session(任意にグループを組み,即興で演奏しあって腕を比べあう集い)が行われた。そこから互いの創意による新しい演奏スタイル,ビバップbe‐bop(略してバップbopともいう)が生まれた。…

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