cornetist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cornetist
Example Sentences
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I was not yet born to be present at the most legendary gig in jazz history—when cornetist King Oliver with his second horn Louis Armstrong played the Lincoln Gardens in Chicago in the early 1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
The cornetist first convened the quintet in 2016 as an extension of a trio that he had long maintained with Blade and Frisell.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2021
Her father, a cornetist, operated a tavern and concert hall in nearby Fond du Lac that boasted of having the first revolving crystal ball north of Chicago.
From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2020
Carmichael wanted to quickly capture the tune that was famously inspired by a girl, the improvisational prowess of his cornetist friend Bix Beiderbecke or maybe both.
From Washington Times • Aug. 1, 2020
One day a cornetist played from the Holmes building so that the members of the Boston Stock Exchange, assembled at the office of Brewster, Bassett and Company, could hear the performance.
From Ted and the Telephone by Stecher, William F. (William Frederick)
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