big band
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of big band
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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The spirit of old-school jazz, blues, big band and soul inhabits the record, which stretches out over 71 minutes, as Raye flexes her compositional muscles.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
Walden so enjoys composing music that in 2022 he founded Pacific Jazz Orchestra, an iteration of the big band he first assembled decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
As Simon observed years later, the V-Discs “mark the high watermark of the big band years.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
But The Clearing has a clarity and purpose that suggests they're finally OK with the idea of being a chart-topping, festival-headlining "big band".
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025
He had invited me to probably ten of his gigs to watch him play and had once let me sit in on drums at a big band concert for a thousand people.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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