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big band

an ensemble of ten or more players, usually 16 to 20, including sections of rhythm, brass, and reeds, playing arrangements of jazz, popular dance music, etc.
big-band definition

big·-band (big′band′)

adjective

  1. of or characteristic of jazz as played by large bands and, specif., of dance music as played by large swing bands of the 1930s and 1940s
  2. of or relating to a big band

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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