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Originally Posted by cLoCkWeRk
It shouldn't be a battle between the two. Both types of music are great in their own right.
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Did you read the OP? This isn't a battle, just a conversation about the two styles' relationship to each other.
Anyway, on the topic: I think, while there is a lot of overlap, they're not the same thing. The big differentiator comes from the very core of these two styles I think, in that prog tends to lean in the direction of being very meticulously plotted music while jam music is, by it's very nature, improvisational. It's basically like the difference between classical music and jazz, which is kind of fitting since prog tends to be more classically influenced while jam is definitely more jazz influenced.