How to Use big band in a Sentence

big band

noun

• The Gulf region gets fat with the sounds of big band jazz.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 15 May 2018
• Break up with the eerie vibes with some big band and Sinatra.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Sep. 2018
• She felt delivered back to the hey-day of the big band era.
  — Jim Masters, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• The Police was one of the biggest bands in the world then—and Patrick Stewart.
  — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2019
• The show will feature a mix of big band classics from the film and brand new songs.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• This is clearly an American clock in the era of the big bands and jazz.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• The big band sound will tempt you off of your portable lawn chair.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2021
• And again, two other times, with that big band on the Stop Making Sense tour.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• The Beatles, the biggest band of the 1960s is part of the Charles Manson story.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 14 Aug. 2019
• When swing and big band was the music du jour, Glenn Miller and his orchestra were at the top of the heap.
  — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2022
• Smith adopted the stage name Dale Evans in the 1930s while getting her start as a jazz, swing and big band singer.
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Apr. 2018
• Very big band, kind of swing and even roots-jazz and roots-blues oriented that came from 1945.
  — Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• When to watch for Gwinnell and the band: The big band's performance will be streamed and broadcast at 11:30 a.m.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2021
• Nas, looking and sounding fresh to death, served old-school Nineties hip-hop bangers with a big band.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2022
• At the Eagles Ballroom, about 300 people had come out to dance to the music of Stan Kenton and his big band.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2022
• The best way to get classic rock fans psyched for another Desert Trip would be to reunite a big band.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2022
• There’s little terrain that this big band is afraid to step into.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• Norman was a former big band singer who turned songwriter in the late 1950s.
  — Variety, NBC News, 11 July 2022
• Believe Ballroom that played all of the songs of my parents' youth, big band and everything like that.
  — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 3 June 2021
• July 5 is the 25th anniversary of the smallest album from the world’s biggest band.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 5 July 2018
• The main genre here is jazz—anything from bebop and contemporary jazz to Latin jazz and big bands.
  — Carrie Hutchinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2018
• Blaine and Kurt perform this as a part of the old-timey, black-and-white local TV special, with a big band vibe that perfectly fits the set.
  — Vulture, 19 Dec. 2023
• The Big Beyond picked up right where Pall and Taggart left off with more big band sound until midnight.
  — Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2020
• Friday is the last official night open to the public, with a farewell set from the dancefloor-packing big band Soul City.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
• And what’s the through-line that takes you from fronting one of the biggest bands in the history of the world to launching a business in the tattoo-maintenance space?
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2018
• As far as pianists playing in a big band, my two role models are Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• But with this piece, the sound of the music — the big band with the trombone and strings and stuff — that is the work of the orchestrators, and that was baked into the show from very early on.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• The big band sound is another genre that inspires his own music.
  — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 19 Aug. 2023
• Pauline and Ernie would frequent the local senior dances several times a week and loved the people, the live music and big band sound.
  — courant.com, 13 May 2018
• Grandpa and Grandma met when Grandpa had a big band and hired Harriet as a singer.
  — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 22 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024