bandleader

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In mid-September 2021, the saxophonist and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin was driving home from a performance in Cleveland when her car slid off the highway, careened through a wooded area and flipped into a drainage ditch.

From New York Times

But his standing as a brilliant and inventive musician was shadowed somewhat by his reputation as a moody loner, a bandleader who repeatedly struggled to keep his bands together.

From Washington Post

Now we’re putting the spotlight on Sun Ra, the experimental pianist, organist and bandleader whose idiosyncratic blend of jazz imagined life on other planets.

From New York Times

“It was a very small leap from there to Tom Waits,” Posner says, “because if Willard the Wizard could have had any contemporary musician as his bandleader, wouldn’t he have chosen Tom Waits?”

From Washington Post

Batiste left his gig as bandleader of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in August to focus on his other work.

From Washington Post