bandleader

Example Sentences

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“I was just trying to get to know him as a dad and as a bandleader and the boss of our whole organization.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

A guitarist, composer and bandleader who died on Saturday, Taylor's six-decade career played a key role in shaping modern popular music in West Africa.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

After Duke Ellington—his clearest hero—Mingus had jazz’s grandest and most fully realized ambitions as a composer, arranger and bandleader.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

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 • Aug. 14, 2025

The bandleader at his school had given him one lesson already, and he had a little book to look at.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen