jazz band

Example Sentences

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“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

The Cookers, a veteran jazz band, said they cancelled two New Year's Eve shows.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

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

Uchis was a sensitive child who would rather write poetry and play saxophone in a jazz band with her classmates; she was still in high school when she left home.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

And there’s the morning announcements over the loud speaker about all the activities the good kids do like drama and jazz band, but that still leaves us eight and a half minutes of awkwardness.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden