cornetist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cornetist
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“Techno Logic,” recorded in London, Berlin and New York, features British tuba player and composer Theon Cross and vocalist and cornetist Ben LaMar Gay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Haynes, who was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 1995, is survived by his daughter and two sons: Graham, a jazz cornetist, and Craig, a drummer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
On “Gravity Without Airs,” the cornetist Kirk Knuffke leads the band, but he has also made himself the new guy of the bunch.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
In the early years of his career, he performed with visiting American jazz musicians including cornetist Rex Stewart, trumpeter Buck Clayton and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2020
The cornetist nodded, upon which I embraced him so enthusiastically that his three-cornered hat fell off, and we all immediately determined to take the mail-boat on the Danube to the castle of the beautiful Countess.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
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