jazz band

Example Sentences

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This is bass-heavy dance music, full of funky syncopation and skittering drums, often played by Tom Skinner of jazz band Sons Of Kemet.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

“I speak to it, like I’m riffing in a jazz band, backwards, forwards, backwards, forwards,” Huntley said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

The Cookers, a veteran jazz band, said they cancelled two New Year's Eve shows.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

Its audience was expanding, and artistically, moving from what Anderson called its “dusty, Bakersfield country-fried” sound into “what was essentially an acid jazz band that was playing rock ’n’ roll.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Fred had played trumpet in the school jazz band since sixth grade, but he didn’t listen to jazz at home.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen