Example sentences for: quintet

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

  • 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.

  • He found it with the young musicians who formed his quintet in 1965.

  • 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'.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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