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bandleading

bandleading adjective: leading a musical band.

Adjective

bandleading (not comparable)

  1. Leading a musical band.
    • Great jazz quartets have often flowered when a bandleading pianist finds a soulmate on sax: Monk and Charlie Rouse, for instance, or Brubeck and Paul Desmond.2005 May 13, Neil Tesser, “Vijay Iyer Quartet With Rudresh Mahanthappa”, in Chicago Reader

Noun

bandleading (uncountable)

  1. The art of leading a musical band.
    • But Israel belongs to the select group of drummers--Art Blakey, Max Roach, Paul Motian, and Ronald Shannon Jackson among them--who approach bandleading with fresh and distinctive vision.1997 June 6, Neil Tesser, “Yoron Israel Quintet”, in Chicago Reader
    • Gonzalez has undoubtedly developed his musical facility by learning to occupy either the foreground of a piece as a trumpeter or its background as a conguero; his bandleading and horn playing have kept him pretty busy over the years, but he easily could've succeeded as a drummer.2001 March 23, Neil Tesser, “Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of bandleading

From band + leading.

Questions about bandleading

What does bandleading mean?
Bandleading means leading a musical band.
What part of speech is bandleading?
Bandleading can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bandleading in the dictionary

  1. bandkini
  2. bandkinis
  3. bandle
  4. bandleader
  5. bandleaders
  6. bandleading
  7. bandles
  8. bandless
  9. bandlessness
  10. bandlet
  11. bandlets

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