bandleader

Example Sentences

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As a pianist and bandleader, Mr. Smith was known for strong left-hand bass lines, splashy right hand and forceful backbeat.

From New York Times

While growing up in East St. Louis in the 1970s and early ’80s, Gunn — the trumpeter, composer and bandleader — had always felt that truth already, in a way he links to ancestral memory.

From New York Times

You’ve been an example for a lot of younger performers as a woman who is indisputably the bandleader.

From New York Times

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