Thanksgiving Jams November 27, 2003 - New York Times By Ben Sisario And now let us give thanks for jam bands. In a concert tradition that has taken hold in recent years, the days after Thanksgiving see a confluence of a certain type of rock band, the kind with, well, a certain level of melodic stamina: the kind that can play all night, it seems, and sometimes does. This year the jam-band holiday is anchored by Phish, which is making a somewhat rare appearance tomorrow at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. The group reunited in 2002 after a two-year hiatus. . . . O.A.R. (originally an abbreviation for Of a Revolution), from Ohio, plays at the Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, Manhattan, tomorrow and Saturday. . . . Moe, from upstate New York, will play at the Beacon Theater, 2124 Broadway at 74th Street, tomorrow and Saturday nights. . . . Also the New Deal, a three-piece group from Toronto that plays a danceable, electronic update of jam-rock, plays at the Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, near the Bowery, Lower East Side, tomorrow and Saturday nights, and Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, with Mr. Denson on saxophone, plays late tomorrow night (after Phish) and Saturday night at Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, at 15th Street. Copyright © 2003 New York Times