"big band" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: big bands [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} big band (countable and uncountable, plural big bands)
  1. (countable) A large dance or jazz band of 10 to 30 musicians usually featuring improvised solos by lead players, but otherwise playing orchestrated music. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Collectives, Musicians Hyponyms: hot band, sweet band Translations (large dance or jazz band): bigband (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-big_band-en-noun-XbDcrixt Disambiguation of Collectives: 66 34 Disambiguation of Musicians: 80 20 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'large dance or jazz band': 90 10
  2. (uncountable, music) The music produced by a jazz big band. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Musical genres
    Sense id: en-big_band-en-noun-NImJU2Pu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

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