jazz band

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On weekends, sometimes a jazz band performs behind the stairwell and revelers dance in the eaves.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

This is bass-heavy dance music, full of funky syncopation and skittering drums, often played by Tom Skinner of jazz band Sons Of Kemet.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

“I speak to it, like I’m riffing in a jazz band, backwards, forwards, backwards, forwards,” Huntley said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

An enormous cocktail party was not on Ibsen’s itinerary—there is no jazz band in “Hedda Gabler”—but there was a similar sense of impending disaster, before and during the evening in question.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

The big stage is set up across from the food vendors, where the Greendale High School jazz band fills the air with classic tunes.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan