jazz band

Example Sentences

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Her first exposure to jazz came at high school, where she performed "contemporary, fusion-y stuff" with a jazz band, but gospel was her focus until she enrolled in college.

From BBC

The stage might feature an octogenarian jazz band one night and a Twitter-famous stand-up comic the next.

From Los Angeles Times

Sure, our homegrown artists and labels are stacking Grammy nominations, our high school jazz bands are always killing it and we have historic John Coltrane recordings just lying around.

From Seattle Times

His mother was an economics professor and amateur painter, while his father worked at car dealerships and General Motors warehouses, playing the saxophone and clarinet in jazz bands at night.

From Washington Post

He was in a jazz band by age 10, and as a teenager he spent summers playing at the Borscht-Belt resorts in the Catskills.

From New York Times