Example sentences for: guitarist

How can you use “guitarist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The idea of a jazz guitarist who's also a textbook Freudian hysteric--loose and yet focused when he's onstage, an anxious buffoon when he's off--has comic poetry built into it, and Penn has radar for both the comedy and the poetry.

  • Like the lead guitarist of the erstwhile Dire Straits, Amis is a stolid, middle-class New Briton blessed with considerable chops, torn between worldly cynicism and a certain nostalgie de la boue , whose wish to get down and dirty is undertaken professionally but stops a bit short of conviction.

  • As Emmet Ray, the fictional 1940s jazz guitarist in Woody Allen's unexpectedly delectable Sweet and Lowdown , he lifts his voice about an octave and wears a small waxed mustache as if it were a fancy hood ornament.

  • In mock-documentary fashion, the story of Emmet is relayed by jazz historians and critics--among them Ben Duncan, Nat Hentoff, and Allen himself--who set the scene for hilarious anecdotes about the guitarist's unreliability, profligacy, and terror of encountering Django Reinhardt.

  • Listen, for instance, to the 33 minute "Circle in the Round," in which Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck, and imagine it being played on FM radio.


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