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
• Break up with the eerie vibes with some big band and Sinatra.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Oct. 2017
• The big band sound will tempt you off of your portable lawn chair.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2021
• In the background, big band music plays.
  — Kate Perez, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
• The show will feature a mix of big band classics from the film and brand new songs.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• There’s little terrain that this big band is afraid to step into.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• There's a lot of big band stuff and sparse production sometimes.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 1 Sep. 2017
• The new album is really all about that feel-good, big band-era vibe.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
• This is clearly an American clock in the era of the big bands and jazz.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• The big band sound is another genre that inspires his own music.
  — Anna Mahan, Country Living, 19 Aug. 2023
• Nas, looking and sounding fresh to death, served old-school Nineties hip-hop bangers with a big band.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2022
• 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
• There was talk of the second album going in a big band direction.
  — Jeremy Hallock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
• One requirement is that the guest artists already have a book of big band arrangements.
  — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
• And again, two other times, with that big band on the Stop Making Sense tour.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• And get stranded with a big band in Europe, and some sucker is gonna come talk to me about sellin’ out.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
• The king of swing Glenn Miller was the human embodiment of the big band era.
  — Julian Ring, NPR, 14 Dec. 2024
• The night kicked off with a big band performance and endless pours of Hennessy cocktails.
  — Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
• The main genre here is jazz—anything from bebop and contemporary jazz to Latin jazz and big bands.
  — Carrie Hutchinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2018
• His first favorite groups were the big bands of Count Basie and Buddy Rich.
  — Mark Halverson, sacbee, 25 Jan. 2018
• When swing and big band was the music du jour, Glenn Miller and his orchestra were at the top of the heap.
  — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2022
• The Police was one of the biggest bands in the world then—and Patrick Stewart.
  — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2019
• Believe Ballroom that played all of the songs of my parents' youth, big band and everything like that.
  — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 3 June 2021
• The best way to get classic rock fans psyched for another Desert Trip would be to reunite a big band.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2022
• Norman was a former big band singer who turned songwriter in the late 1950s.
  — Variety, NBC News, 11 July 2022
• Champagne towers glittered, and a 14-piece big band brought the Jazz Age back to life.
  — Lisa A. Beach, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2026
• And some guy would be playing big band music, and another opera, and Tony Bennett down the block.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 June 2024
• The production, in addition to Groff, will feature a cast of 16 and a live on-stage big band.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2024
• But his professional persona in those pre-TV days was honed by radio, movies and the big band music of the era.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 6 Feb. 2024
• Pauline and Ernie would frequent the local senior dances several times a week and loved the people, the live music and big band sound.
  — courant.com, 13 May 2018