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jazz band
noun
- a band specializing in jazz, and consisting typically of trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, piano, double bass, and percussion.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jazz band1
An Americanism dating back to 1915–20
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Example Sentences
She told me she had learned jazz violin playing in an all-girl jazz band.
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A flaring light directed him to a place where, all too late, the frantic dissonances of a jazz band burst upon his shocked ears.
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The Tortonis are doing a dancin' turn there and they have the swellest jazz band in town.
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There was a floor for dancing, with the inevitable jazz band, rather a good one.
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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.
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I discover that there is an American jazz band in the place.
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