How to Use big band in a Sentence

big band

noun
  • The first, an EP recorded with a big band, is an idea that came to them after an exhilarating concert with a big jazz ensemble.
    Ernesto Lechner, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • 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
  • His first favorite groups were the big bands of Count Basie and Buddy Rich.
    Mark Halverson, sacbee, 25 Jan. 2018
  • 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 | Mwake@al.com, 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
  • There's a lot of big band stuff and sparse production sometimes.
    Raisa Bruner, Time, 1 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • And some guy would be playing big band music, and another opera, and Tony Bennett down the block.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 June 2024
  • 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

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