sextet

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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

The sextet learned the intricate, aerobic choreography for their Gap advert in just one day.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 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

The sextet is set to play the Resident in downtown Los Angeles on June 20 as part of the Tiny Desk Contest tour.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2023

For this final encore he wanted to play the sextet from an opera called Lucia di Lammermoor.

From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden