jazz band

noun

1. a band specializing in jazz, and consisting typically of trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, piano, double bass, and percussion.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jazz band¹

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20

Example Sentences

He studied music at the University of Southern California — his college jazz band once won a national contest — before switching to mathematics.

From Washington Post

Tenneson speaks of the joy of the creative process and the sense of community he found with other incarcerated players, specifically Kevin Woodley, a man who, on the outside, had for decades fronted blues and jazz bands around Chicago.

From Washington Post

Charlie’s quintessentially a jazz drummer, which means that the rest of the band is a jazz band in a way.

From Washington Post

She told me she had learned jazz violin playing in an all-girl jazz band.

From The Daily Beast

A flaring light directed him to a place where, all too late, the frantic dissonances of a jazz band burst upon his shocked ears.

From Project Gutenberg

The Tortonis are doing a dancin' turn there and they have the swellest jazz band in town.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a floor for dancing, with the inevitable jazz band, rather a good one.

From Project Gutenberg

They belong to the class which finds all that it wants in a jazz band and scrambled eggs at Jack's at one o'clock in the morning.

From Project Gutenberg

I discover that there is an American jazz band in the place.

From Project Gutenberg