bandleader

Example Sentences

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A guitarist, composer and bandleader who died on Saturday, Taylor's six-decade career played a key role in shaping modern popular music in West Africa.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

After Duke Ellington—his clearest hero—Mingus had jazz’s grandest and most fully realized ambitions as a composer, arranger and bandleader.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Cleto Escobedo III, the bandleader of Cleto and the Cletones, the house band for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” has died.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

Along with the three silver aluminium audition records, which are labelled by hand, a copy of Dame Vera's first record, It's Home, recorded in 1935 with bandleader Howard Baker, was also found.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2025

She looked at me as if we were onstage, and she was the bandleader, giving me my cue.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee