Jamettone make music in the moment. Completely improvised sessions are filmed and recorded regularly. The good stuff gets released.

Contributors have played Montreux Jazz Festival, Glastonbury, Shepherds Bush Empire, Alexandra Palace & countless more. They’ve appeared on Jools Holland and Bob Harris’ shows, had their work used on national television and adverts: CBS, BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, UEFA, Sky Sports, Eurosport and had their music played on BBC radio 1, 2, 3 4 & 6. One of them even wrote the theme tune to Deal or No Deal.

The project came about in 2018 following conversations ExP had with various musicians around West Yorkshire regarding the need for a jam night where people of all abilities could have a place to play music with each other. The idea was that, for 3 hours, anyone would turn up to DubWhy Studios whenever and jam with whatever instruments, with whoever, and that would be that. Nothing fancier. ExP was adamant there would be no recording, let alone filming, as he knew that once he started recording it, he’d get obsessed with it, and try and create something with it. Whoops.

The first officially recorded jam was on the 19th January 2019 and during this session (as had been tradition for the jams prior to it) a panettone (brought by cellist and jam regular Nick Bennion) was shared amongst the musicians at the half-time break. A Jamettone.

Since then, Jamettone has taken on different shapes and forms and featured (at time of writing, and with many more debuts planned), over 40 different musicians. A momentum of 16 jams throughout 2019 was ended abruptly with you-know-what the following year but Jamettone bounced back stronger still with twice as many in 2021 and even more in 2022.

The Jamettone ethos is “no f**king covers” and everything is always improvised. There are allowances for preparation in as much as musicians triggering samples etc may have chance to gather these samples pre-jam, but otherwise the music that is made is entirely on the spot and in the moment.

Since its “free-for-all” origins, all jams are now carefully curated by ExP, (nearly) always featuring him on keys and then 3 to 5 other musicians.

With live improvisation performances and releases now under the belt, and with plans to release more of the music they’ve made (which exceeds 2000 individual tracks), Jamettone aren’t aiming to disappear into the fog anytime soon.