bandleader
Example Sentences
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These five musicians are acclaimed bandleaders and sought-after sidemen, sometimes in each other’s ensembles.
After Duke Ellington—his clearest hero—Mingus had jazz’s grandest and most fully realized ambitions as a composer, arranger and bandleader.
The jazz bandleader Duke Ellington claimed to be “crazy about baseball” and recalled working as a vendor at Washington Senators’ games.
And to be able to serve as bandleader and drum leader, or drum major, for a group of incredible musicians is an absolute dream.
From Los Angeles Times
Along with the three silver aluminium audition records, which are labelled by hand, a copy of Dame Vera's first record, It's Home, recorded in 1935 with bandleader Howard Baker, was also found.
From BBC
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