bandleading

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adjective

Leading a musical band.

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Meanings

adjectivebandleading (not comparable)
  1. not comparableLeading 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
nounbandleading (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe art of leading a musical band.

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

    2007 June 9, Ben Ratliff, “Vamps, Grooves and All Sorts of Ideas, Old and New”, in New York Times
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    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

From band + leading.

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APA

bandleading. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bandleading

MLA

“bandleading.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bandleading. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bandleading,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bandleading.

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