#jazz band

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

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I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

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My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around. ↗

— Louis Prima

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I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school. ↗

— Chad Smith

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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. ↗

— Travis Barker

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The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that. ↗

— Mike Gordon

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I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

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I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one. ↗

— Glenn Miller

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It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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