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sextet

[seks-tet] / sɛksˈtɛt /




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Earlier that year, he had toured with arguably his greatest small group, a sextet including multi-reedist Eric Dolphy, whose sensitivity and brilliance were an especially good match for Mingus’s own.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 15, 2025

L’Impératrice No matter who is playing against L’Impératrice on Friday at Coachella, I recommend ditching them in favor of the French sextet with the snazzy stagewear.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2024

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

“Harmony,” Barry Manilow’s long-in-the-works musical about an early-20th-century German sextet that ran afoul of the Nazi regime, will end an abbreviated Broadway run on Feb. 4.

From New York Times Jan. 16, 2024

“It’s the sextet from Loochy the Murmurer,” announced Tucker Mouse, who had become quite an expert on all things musical during the past week.

From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden




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