sextet
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An evening that had begun as silencing a smiling sextet ended in a sublime effort to open the mind beyond body and music to give peace a chance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
As a teenager, the pianist and composer played in a swing band, his own trio and then in a sextet called the Jazz Epistles, which also included another South African jazz great, Hugh Masakela.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
The one Mingus brought to Monterey included pianist Jaki Byard and drummer Dannie Richmond from that previous sextet, along with alto saxophonist Charles McPherson, tenor saxophonist John Handy and trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Fronted by singer Francesca Eluhu, the sextet blends psychedelic neo-soul, breezy R&B and jazz — both London’s dance-floor-moving modern fusion scene and dashes of Afro-Cuban rhythms — over six joyful tracks.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
“The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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