Example sentences for: quintet

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

  • With Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Williams on drums, Davis had a dream team, and the quintet's music is as much a display of their talent as it is of Davis'.

  • The quintet's music was built from the bottom up, assertively declaring jazz's African lineage.

  • 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.

  • Columbia has just released the Davis quintet's studio work in a six-CD box set, and it's remarkable how well the music has aged.

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


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