Example sentences for: quintet

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

  • 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.

  • In 1969, Davis ventured into the lugubrious, brooding funk of Bitches Brew . The quintet was Davis' last remarkable tango with jazz.

  • 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.

  • Within a few years, Davis grew tired of acoustic jazz, and his final sessions with the quintet are restless, transitional works that point the way ahead.

  • The quintet released six studio recordings between 1965 and 1968: E.S.P.


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