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bandleading

adj

Etymology

From band + leading.

  1. derived from *laidijaną✻ — “to lead”
  2. inherited from *laidijandz✻
  3. inherited from *laidijandī✻
  4. inherited from lǣdende
  5. inherited from ledinge
  6. compounded as bandleading — “band + leading”

Definitions

  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.

  2. 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.
    • […] it’s taken a while for him to bring his ideas about composition and bandleading into balance with his own playing.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA