Sentence examples for school jam from inspiring English sources

In high school jam sessions, every reed player was a saxophonist.

It's the Brooklyn Children's Museum's Back to School Jam, a fair on Friday that celebrates the academic year, particularly for visitors entering kindergarten.

"A DJ Kool Herc Party," it read, in a quick pencil approximation of the elaborate spraycan slogans then appearing all over the Bronx: "Back to school jam".

It is 40 years since a 'back to school jam' in New York's west Bronx kickstarted a movement and spawned a whole culture.

On a hot August night in 1973, Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc, and his sister Cindy put on a 'back to school jam' in the recreation room of their apartment block at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the west Bronx.

His humanitarian works included a Stay in School Jam for 6,500 local area students that he participated in along with several teammates and R&B artist Usher.

Wouldn't inter-school JaM leagues be a brilliant idea?

With a truly cosmopolitan, Jeux Sans Frontières-style bill, participants include Holland's Marco V and Ferry Corsten; Germany's Scot Project; Romanian trance DJ Claudia Cazacu; US duo Gabriel & Dresden; Italian hardstyle pioneer Activator; Australian act Bioweapon; and, of course, here come the Belgians, represented by old-school jam-pumping legends, Technotronic.

But the petrol shortages, blockaded oil depots and schools, jammed roads, burnt cars and sporadic violence this week were of a quite different order.

So much immigration — mainly illegal immigration, he says — has taken meatpacking jobs away from the locals, left the schools jammed, and driven up crime.

For this appearance at Sneaky Pete's sixth birthday, he's sure to pull from the well-stocked R&S catalogue as much as lesser-known old-school jams.