How to Use big band in a Sentence

big band

noun
  • Plus, hear big band music all day.
    — Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In the background, big band music plays.
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The new album is really all about that feel-good, big band-era vibe.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
  • This year, starting in June, there has been a mix of mambo, funk, soul, brass band big band and more.
    — The Know, Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Champagne towers glittered, and a 14-piece big band brought the Jazz Age back to life.
    — Lisa A. Beach, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Following his speech, Corson introduced Bublé who performed big band tunes to close the night.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Her big band from the Land tour is present on this album to draw a loud counterpoint to the protagonist’s quest for smallness and silence.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
  • This big band take of a song already teetering on irredeemable absurdity, wants to be lush and seductive.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The bold use of the synth as a sort of ticking clock before an outbreak of violence shaped the sound of the genre – and helped put the knife in the traditional big band sound.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Last year, guests were treated to music of the Beatles, Jimmy Buffett, big band and dance.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026
  • But none, Finnegan added, could match Keane’s encyclopedic knowledge of music, whether classical, big band, jazz, pop, rock or hip-hop.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
  • After that, the composer turned his attention to a big band pet project, making ends meet with leftover work scoring German TV shows.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Guests are encouraged to bring picnic baskets and lawn chairs to set up in front of the Pavilion alongside Wolf Lake to enjoy this tribute to the big band and swing icon.
    — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The venue was a haven for the African American community when the city was still segregated and became well known for booking jazz and big band performers.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The venue was a haven for the African American community when the city was still segregated and became well known for booking jazz and big band performers.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • His music, holding a foot in the future and the past, is homage to Puerto Rican traditions, heavy on salsa, with notes of hip hop, big band, indie rock and reggaeton.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • So the nation's viewers grew used to Carson tucking them in bed, backed by a sprawling big band, with a monologue that gently poked fun at the day's news events and chummy interactions with celebrities.
    — Eric Deggans, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Guests will enjoy an evening of live big band and jazz performances, dancing, signature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a buffet dinner while exploring the Athenaeum’s historic spaces and distinguished art collection.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Guests will enjoy an evening of live big band and jazz performances, dancing, signature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a buffet dinner while exploring the Athenaeum’s historic spaces and distinguished art collection.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Guests will enjoy an evening of live big band and jazz performances, dancing, signature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a buffet dinner while exploring the Athenaeum’s historic spaces and distinguished art collection.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • This is easily the most musically fascinating number on the album, with the most striking use of orchestration extending to brass clearly meant to evoke the big band style of the period, even though the tune is otherwise not even remotely in that style.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
  • El Gran Combo’s big band format would become a template for many subsequent big salsa bands, and so would to Ithier’s military precision, emulated by bands like Colombia’s Grupo Niche.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2025
  • After the group disbanded in 1984, Setzer went solo and later formed the Brian Setzer Orchestra in the 1990s, a 17-piece big band ensemble.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The program will feature music from Broadway and the movies, including selections from Wicked, How to Train Your Dragon, Cowboys and West Side Story along with some blues, marches and big band favorites.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The program will feature music from Broadway and the movies, including selections from Wicked, How to Train Your Dragon, Cowboys and West Side Story along with some blues, marches and big band favorites.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
  • He was born in Hawthorne, New Jersey, to big band musician Virgil Lozzi and Elizabeth Ann Rhodes, daughter of the New Jersey newspaper owner Raymond Lincoln Rhodes.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2026
  • On Saturday there were nearly 400 student instrumentalists and vocalists one time or another on stage at Disney, members of a large symphony orchestra, a concert orchestra, a big band, a mariachi ensemble and the Titan Banda Oaxaquena.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • The students have been studying jazz big band repertoire, improvisation techniques and the art of ensemble performance weekly with Larson, Rick Salonen from the University of Arkansas and Ryan Yumang from the University of North Texas.
    — Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The main musical attractions were the B-52s, Devo, Danny Elfman and Puddles Pity Party, taking turns fronting a 10-piece big band led by Mark Mothersbaugh — and with Fred Armisen on drums — that nimbly navigated between exotica and some fairly fierce garage-rock.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 May 2026
  • Casati Stampa di Soncino inhabited Peggy Guggenheim’s former home Palazzo Venier dei Leoni and infused Venice with 1920s glamour, wild parties with big band music and monkeys and filled it with famous guests like her lover, poet Gabriele D’Annunzio and visual artist Man Ray.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025

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