sextet
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As a teenager, the pianist and composer played in a swing band, his own trio and then in a sextet called the Jazz Epistles, which also included another South African jazz great, Hugh Masakela.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Earlier that year, he had toured with arguably his greatest small group, a sextet including multi-reedist Eric Dolphy, whose sensitivity and brilliance were an especially good match for Mingus’s own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Fronted by singer Francesca Eluhu, the sextet blends psychedelic neo-soul, breezy R&B and jazz — both London’s dance-floor-moving modern fusion scene and dashes of Afro-Cuban rhythms — over six joyful tracks.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
And, at the family’s country house, preparations for a meal were accompanied by a Schubertian violin sextet.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
Howard got up on his saddle horse, Chulo, Smith got on Pumpkin, and the sextet trotted out to the course for a prerace blowout.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
