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big band

NOUN
  1. a large dance or jazz band usually featuring improvised solos by lead musicians

How To Use big band In A Sentence

  • The side of the car was crumpled, both air bags had deployed and big band music was blaring through the windows. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kenny Wheeler, the expat Canadian trumpeter and jazz composer, was 82 last week – but this big band session featuring new themes and plenty of flugelhorn improvising, was recorded only a few months ago. Kenny Wheeler: The Long Waiting – review
  • He will be joined on stage at the Sedbergh gig by his Big Band.
  • There have also been some big bands that have covered Last Resort songs.
  • Backed by an ­invigoratingly swinging big band, his singing made me feel good with his personal, signature sound, infectious jazz time and conversational phrasing. The Other Frank Sinatra
  • Bravo to Terry Teachout's long-overdue appreciation of Broadway orchestrators, or "arrangers" as we say in the Big Band biz ( Hi Ho, Let's Give a Hand to Thank The Lone Arranger
  • He created a unique fusion of the swing of the US big bands of the 40s and the tang of his Cuban roots, aimed fairly and squarely at the dance floor and at popular appeal.
  • The side of the car was crumpled, both air bags had deployed and big band music was blaring through the windows. Times, Sunday Times
  • The big band sound of Syd Lawrence and his Orchestra will delight fans.
  • To borrow the name of another big band of the era, that period was all a bit of a blur. The Sun
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