Example sentences for: quintet

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

  • Incredibly, hardly anyone recognized this until the late '70s, when the quintet's work was adopted as a model by young musicians such as Wynton Marsalis.

  • He had performed alongside Charlie Parker, led a marvelous quintet with John Coltrane, and collaborated with Gil Evans on such jazz orchestral arrangements as Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess . Davis' 1959 sextet recording, Kind of Blue , became, with its haikulike lyricism, synonymous with cool and provided a soundtrack for nearly every party with intellectual pretensions.

  • In the revolutionary age of free jazz, with its joyful defiance of form and radical embrace of pure sound, the Davis quintet seemed just a bit too polished.

  • (Galoob is even in the process of hurriedly rushing to market 11 ½-inch Spice Girls dolls, hoping to cash in on the frenzy before the British quintet end up in Palookaville.)

  • The Davis quintet was the rare exception, a luminous example of participatory democracy in jazz.


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