jazz band
Example Sentences
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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
There were clues, though: He once went into the Brentwood School gym and dunked to soothe his nerves before singing in the jazz band.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 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 guitar prodigy, who says she grew up playing in a jazz band, has effectively captured nostalgia for a time she wasn’t alive for.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2025
Like last week in homeroom when Mr. Bontaff made this whole big deal about how Matt had done such an amazing job for his trumpet solo in the jazz band concert.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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