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"sextet" Definitions
  1. [countable + singular or plural verb] a group of six musicians or singers who play or sing together
  2. [countable] a piece of music for six musicians or singersTopics Musicc2
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Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet, "Apparent Distance" (Firehouse 12, 2011) Mr. Bynum has also featured Ms. Halvorson his own albums, notably this sextet outing.
The sextet album will be his fifth, not his third.
Each of that sextet needed a breakout moment to remain alive.
The Vijay Iyer Sextet will be among the Miller's jazz offerings.
Here he plays two sets with a sextet of younger musicians.
VIJAY IYER SEXTET, JOANNE BRACKEEN, CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Newport Jazz Festival, Aug.
The sextet slowly dissolves until all we've got left is Miller alone.
The events of Cologne saw control of the party shift decisively within this sextet.
Mr. Terry, who also teaches at Harvard, appears here with his Afro-Cuban Sextet.
"Late Arcade," his most recent novel, charts the road life of an experimental sextet.
But with a sextet, he builds arrangements that have a stubborn, towering new power.
The sextet performs the new Spears single "Make Me" much to the surprise of Kimmel.
Not always, however, as the impressive sextet Eighth Blackbird demonstrated on Monday night at Zankel Hall.
I remember as a teenager thinking that it was interesting that "Friends" had a white sextet.
It is little wonder why newlyweds would want the sextet to carry them through their celebrations.
That's a piece that I think I really, after "Double Sextet," hit out of the park.
VIJAY IYER SEXTET "Far From Over" (ECM) Mr. Iyer's best asset remains his propulsive, fortified pianism.
She is a member of yMusic, a chamber sextet that has worked with artists, including Paul Simon.
Accompanying Ms. Lemper was a sextet playing arrangements that traversed international styles without settling into one place.
He continued his jazz career, over time playing with Mr. Russell's sextet and Mr. Jones's big band.
Despite lots of yearning from the boys—particularly me—the activity within our coed sextet remained entirely platonic.
On Saturday at the Appel Room, he led an intergenerational sextet in an investigation of Dizzy Gillespie's legacy.
The musical director and pianist Joseph Thalken's arrangements for a sextet that included two strings were light but elegant.
The program offers Barber's 1936 String Quartet and Brahms's great Sextet No. 2 in G. At 6:30 p.m.
Two years later, five members of the sextet embarked on another Gate 1 trip to Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia.
Mr. Finlayson was introducing a new sextet, which headed into the studio soon after this show to record an album.
Christened the Port of Harlem Jazzmen, the thrown-together sextet was the first full-on ensemble recorded for the label.
It's a trope-heavy sextet — six short films strung together, with nothing obviously connecting them besides a kind of dream logic.
Melissa Aldana-Glenn Zaleski Sextet (Saturday) Ms. Aldana, a saxophonist, and Mr. Zaleski, a pianist, share an aesthetic of postbop dynamism.
The woodwinds, whose penetrating tones gave them an acoustical advantage, waylaid tourists with the quintet version of Beethoven's Sextet Opus 71.
Each day, a different artist showed up—maybe Mayte Montero or Petrona Martínez, or the Tabalá Sextet—to record their part.
Then a sextet will offer experimental renditions of famous South African tunes by the likes of Mongezi Feza and Zim Ngqawana.
Oneus "LIT" It's always fun to see artists take pride in their culture, and rookie sextet Oneus' "LIT" is no exception.
"Soma," an instrumental sextet inspired by Ms. Fure's grandmother's struggle with Parkinson's disease, became a powerful reflection on misdirected gestures and disorientation.
Iyer's sextet has been one of the hottest commodities in jazz since the release of its debut, "Far From Over," in 29.
Mingle in the Hennessy Lounge to the sounds of All That Jazz Sextet and dance to DJ Cyn in the Belvedere Lounge.
It's a trope-heavy sextet — six short films strung together, without any obvious connections between them except a kind of dream logic.
Onstage she steers Rufus, an interracial funk sextet from Chicago, with a voice that sounds bigger than the billowing curls framing her face.
Best is Justin Peck's "Helix," set to music by Esa-Pekka Salonen, a male-female sextet full of dynamic contrasts and coursing energy.
Then there's renowned pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque and Chicago sextet eighth blackbird presumably making up the bulk of the on-stage band.
His latest release, "Sextet (Parker) 1993," is an 11-CD set collecting live performances of tunes associated with Charlie Parker, the bebop progenitor.
He has been most acclaimed for intimate works like "Music for 18 Musicians" and "Double Sextet," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009.
That will change this fall, when he releases "Far From Over," his fifth disc on ECM Records and his first with the sextet.
Even when he recorded with just a sextet, his crafty arrangements gave the sense of a chattering, wall-to-wall conversation among bandmates.
There would be many more gigantic, kitschy installations: A sextet of 10-foot-tall dancing frogs and an alligator made of Altoid tins.
If Democrats manage to flip the state senate next November, they will find passing legislation easier without that sextet who frequently partnered with Republicans.
El Rio, a "sextet expressing resistance, love and revolution through a fusion of Latin American folk rhythms," will provide a soundtrack for the evening.
Whenever their eyes open and they're ready to doll out cuddles, this sextet have a good Samaritan to thank for giving them a future.
Recent acts have included the Linda Sikhakhane Sextet, Vuma Levin, Lu Dlamini; tickets typically range from 216 to 23 rand, depending on the artist.
Ensembles appearing in concert include the Sphinx Virtuosi, devoted to diversifying representation in classical music; Grand Band, a piano sextet; and the Shanghai Quartet.
A strain of uneasiness soon emerges within the romantic entanglements, a mood beautifully reflected in Frank London's multifaceted music, performed by an onstage sextet.
This esteemed pianist and educator is still riding a wave of recognition after last year's "Far From Over," the debut album from his sextet.
A renowned pianist, educator and MacArthur fellow, Iyer's last big statement on record was "Far From Over," the 23821 debut recording from his sextet.
The Paul Shapiro Sextet will play Mr. Shapiro's contemporary jazz score for the film, which centers on a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia.
For a while Mr. Tyner worked with the Jazztet, a hard-bop sextet led by the saxophonist Benny Golson and the trumpeter Art Farmer.
For a while Mr. Tyner worked with the Jazztet, a hard-bop sextet led by the saxophonist Benny Golson and the trumpeter Art Farmer.
On this day, he is part of a sextet of UFC fighters and officials working out with the head trainers from the New Jersey Devils.
A sextet of well-known techs -- Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google owner Alphabet, Facebook and Netflix -- have lost a collective $1.1 trillion from their all-time highs.
In commemoration, the virtuoso pianist Terry Waldo — who plays traditional repertoire with a kind of playful reverence — will lead a sextet through some of Joplin's music.
One night it was the Korean Military Academy Band, a drumming sextet in red soldier outfits that weaves languid hip-hop moves into highly regimented music.
But after Rashaun Mitchell watched members of the Stephen Petronio Company rehearse the sextet from "Signals," a rarely performed Cunningham dance from 1970, he went there.
At Symphony Space, Ron Wasserman and his New York Jazzharmonic Trad-Jazz Sextet will celebrate the centennial of this event, playing new arrangements of Europe's music.
Mr. Iyer's sextet provides a resonant vessel for his heady, hot-blooded compositions; the group's debut album, "Far From Over," was one of last year's best.
That Cape Town-based sextet played bustling, American-style bebop, and in 1959 became the first black South African band to make a commercial jazz recording.
Last year, Finlayson, a young trumpeter with an appetite for tangled rhythm and lithe, fugacious melody, released a compelling album, "3 Times Round," with his sextet.
In this third episode of Noisey Shreds, our metal guru Kim Kelly flew out to LA to meet with the sextet ahead of their show that evening.
In the New York premiere of "Verklärte Nacht" ("Transfigured Night"), De Keersmaeker finds inspiration in Arnold Schoenberg's 1899 string sextet, based on a poem by Richard Dehmel.
Her own albums, which began appearing in the early '70s on Watt, the label she founded with Mr. Mantler, have ranged in scale: big band, sextet, tentet, trio.
Next month Mr. Finlayson will release "3 Times Round," an album featuring a powerful new sextet, in which well-placed, almost pugilistic movements carry a Zen-like purpose.
This sextet of Gnawa musicians from Morocco plays songs of devotion and praise, rendered by a cluster of voices over mixed percussion and sintir, a three-stringed bass.
The sextet includes Graham Haynes on cornet and fluegelhorn, Mark Shim on tenor saxophone, Steve Lehman on alto saxophone, Stephan Crump on bass and Jeremy Dutton on drums.
The sextet of 6-week-olds caught their first lucky break when a civilian walking near the creek noticed the box tip over and found the dogs stuck inside.
JONATHAN FINLAYSON SEXTET The Stone, March 3 Jonathan Finlayson stood onstage at the Stone's new home in a theater at the New School, almost ready to start his set.
On Sunday, he is joined by the pianist Marilyn Crispell; on Monday, he debuts seven pieces for sextet; on Tuesday, he adds turntables, electronics and vocals to the mix.
Schubert's String Trio in B Flat, Dvorak's Piano Quartet in D and Mendelssohn's Piano Sextet make up this Chamber Music Society concert, the first in its Summer Evenings series.
Sweetheart Soiree (Saturday) Formal evening attire is encouraged for this Valentine's Day jazz fête hosted by Michael Arenella and his sextet, spread over four floors of a brownstone-turned-nightclub.
Partly through their tousled hair and leather jackets, partly through their crunchy guitar playing, the sextet are now earning themselves a reputation for rock'n'roll both at home and further afield.
The new sextet Spaza includes two members of Shabaka and the Ancestors (the British saxophonist's collaboration with Mzansi musicians), plus other young vocalists and instrumentalists based in Johannesburg or Soweto.
Inspired by early work of the Winans, who would become perhaps the United States' foremost gospel family, she, her sister and some childhood friends formed a sextet called New Dawn.
"The Pilot" or "The One Where Monica Gets A Roommate" (Season 1, Episode 1) The first episode sets up the premise for this sextet of singletons and their co-dependency.
New York Philharmonic Ms. Young will lead the "Enigma" Variations, with Philharmonic musicians playing Dvorak's String Sextet, on Saturday afternoon at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center; 212-875-5656, nyphil.org.
During one performance of his sextet in G Major, "they were cheering like it was a sports game," Ms. Hall-Tompkins said of the roughly 26,000 people in the room.
Golden State's options came down to cutting Casspi or waiving someone from its center-by-committee sextet of Zaza Pachulia, Jordan Bell, David West, JaVale McGee, Kevon Looney and Damian Jones.
In 1949, he shared the stage with Charlie Parker at the Paris Jazz Festival, and a year later he toured Europe as the guitarist in a sextet led by Benny Goodman.
GABRIEL ALEGRÍA AFRO-PERUVIAN SEXTET (Wednesday) The polyrhythmic-triplet pulse common to the folkloric music of Peru — in dance rhythms like festejo, tondero and landó — meshes well with a jazz cadence.
His on-again, off-again group, the Dom Salvador Sextet, released one album, "The Art of Samba Jazz," in 2010, and occasionally performs at venues like Joe's Pub and the Django.
This sextet of straight-ahead adepts builds upon the postbop language of the 1960s — what you might recognize from Miles Davis's second great quintet or Joe Henderson's first few Milestone albums.
Douglas's most recent album, "Black Lion," from last year, dealt in capering funk, briskly swinging postbop and maximalist contemporary jazz, all arranged for a sextet with a three-horn front line.
On Tuesday, I watched a powerful sextet at atrium level: the dancers of Rosas jetted past me, and sidestepped other spectators, while Ictus let loose with fortissimo bursts and scrambled aftershocks.
This concert, uptown at the Park Avenue Armory, coincides with the closing of that show and features Ms. Roberts joined by a poet known as Geng and a sextet of snare drummers.
Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet (Friday and Saturday) The polyrhythmic-triplet pulse common to the folkloric music of Peru — in dance rhythms like festejo, tondero and landó — meshes well with a jazz cadence.
Andrew Norman was named composer of the year; the bass-baritone Eric Owens, vocalist of the year; and Eighth Blackbird, the new-music sextet currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, ensemble of the year.
Any other choreographer could learn from the dazzling structural felicity of one sextet, in which solos, duets and trios so continually overlap and merge into one another (with gender roles changing as well).
Visitors to the workshop can observe the ceramists, who still use mule-hair brushes and the traditional sextet of colors (yellow, black, green, orange, mauve and blue), or make something of their own.
At this album-release show she will appear in a sextet, with three additional guests: the flutist Hadar Noiberg, the guitarist Leni Stern (here playing the ngoni) and the violinist Janet Sora Chung.
By day, Cisco Brewers (about two miles southwest of town) doubles as a complimentary open-air cabaret, hosting local bands like the "cowpunky country" sextet Buckle and Shake, and the puppeteer Lizza Obremski.
On Monday at Carnegie Hall, Sleeping Giant will present its most ambitious collaborative work: "Hand Eye," written for the new-music sextet Eighth Blackbird as part of the celebrations of that ensemble's 20th birthday.
After Eminem broke through as a mainstream megastar, he scooped up his old group, D12, and helped turn the sextet into cartoon anti-heroes who delighted in bringing their shock schtick to the world.
On many of these tracks, Mr. Braxton's sextet — including the drummer Pheeroan akLaff and the pianist Misha Mengelberg — hews to a cinched swing feel, letting its avant-garde linguistics slip in through the cracks.
That was around the last time the group put out an album, and it seemed to be on indefinite hiatus until a return to the road — in sextet form — a couple of years ago.
The sextet acts out a few scenes from the seminal Friends episode "The One Where No One's Ready," saying the exact same lines as the original actors as a studio audience dutifully laughs along.
Genesis Belanger's four sculptures and two paintings is a geometric sextet of formalism; the giant cigarette statues, soft and quasi-erotic, are juxtaposed with the solid concrete and steel shapes upon which they are mounted.
But the sextet (touring as a five-piece now because founding member Joe Keery is off playing Steve Harrington in Stranger Things) have a sludgier streak too, even if they grin their way through it.
Ravi Coltrane: The Void (Tuesday through April 3) A tenor and soprano saxophonist with a dry tone and a sleek, undemonstrative style, Mr. Coltrane combines old and new partners in the Void, his new sextet.
This exhibition stints on his 16753s work to concentrate on his abstractions of the last 20 years, such as the mighty "Cage" sextet (2006), whose streaks of greens, silvers and yellows reconcile skill and randomness.
On Friday, the pianist Dave Burrell debuts "Harlem Renaissance," a response to the life and work of the dancer Josephine Baker; Burrell's sextet will play in conversation with two dancers, Marguerite Hemmings and J'royce Jata.
This leading new-music group, a sextet, ranges widely in this concert, with arrangements of music by Sufjan Stevens and Paul Simon vying with pieces by Luciano Berio, Gabriella Smith, Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw and more.
With the sextet, Mr. Iyer is applying a similar ethic on a larger scale, with the alto saxophonist Steve Lehman, the tenor saxophonist Mark Shim and the trumpeter Graham Haynes joining Mr. Sorey and Mr. Crump.
That Anglophone audiences might struggle to understand their songs is of little concern to most musicians: even Frenchmen will miss most of the lyrics says Charles de Boisseguin, a member of L'Imperatrice, an electro-pop sextet (pictured).
The ensemble's account of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Double Sextet" (2007) was urgent enough that it made you long to see the cityscape below sped up in a time lapse to match the energy of the music.
But mainly "Signals" is a delight that works as a progression, beginning with the formal starkness of a duet and two solos, and gradually developing into, as Mr. Mitchell described, "a jubilee" with a trio and sextet.
His latest undertaking is a sextet featuring five younger musicians on the New York scene: Nathan Reising on alto saxophone, Morgan Guerin on tenor saxophone, Lex Korten on piano, Sasha Berliner on vibraphone and Nick Dunston on bass.
The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore was built in 1137, and Gaetano Donizetti, the composer of "Chi mi frena in tal momento," the sextet from "Lucia di Lammermoor," perhaps my favorite piece of classical music, was born in Bergamo.
In a work collectively titled "The Present Moment" on the second floor, Arnold Schoenberg's tumultuous late Romantic "Verklärte Nacht," a string sextet from 1899, starts out whole and its notes are fragmented across the entire space and 20 separate ceiling speakers.
"Signals" is modular — a duet, two solos, a trio, a sextet, each with little relation to the others — and the Petronio company's performance of the distinctly exposing choreography tended to start strong and fray by the end of each section.
Rather than build productions with synthetic sounds, for half of the album Hornsby brought in yMusic, the contemporary chamber sextet that has also worked lately with Paul Simon, and its violinist and arranger Rob Moose; other songs use string orchestras.
We knew from his work with large ensembles (much of it on display at Ojai) that he had the mind of an arranger — but until now his sextet, which has gigged around since 2011, has been a relatively well-kept secret.
The Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales, or CLAEM, which he founded to expose Latin American composers to international trends in musical modernism, bred influential figures such as the recently deceased Gerardo Gandini, who also played piano in Piazzolla's "Nuevo Tango" sextet.
Despite Monsta X's fans' (called Monbebe) unwavering support of the sextet during their various promotional activities and gearing up for their upcoming world tour, Monbebe have been relentless in the past five months in their calls for Wonho's reinstatement in the group.
Mr. Masekela came to the forefront of his country's music scene in the 1950s, when he became a pioneer of South African jazz as a member of the Jazz Epistles, a bebop sextet that included the pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and other future stars.
Appearing here with Mr. Iyer, in twice-nightly performances Tuesday through May 28, are the bassist Stephan Crump and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey (who does not typically record with the trio, but will play in a sextet on Mr. Iyer's next album).
Appearing here with Mr. Iyer, in twice-nightly performances Tuesday through May 14, are the bassist Stephan Crump and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey (who does not typically record with the trio, but will play in a sextet on Mr. Iyer's next album).
"The Present Moment (in B-flat)" and "The Present Moment (in D)" (both 2014), projected on screens in opposite corners of the museum's second floor, depict separate performances of Arnold Schoenberg's single-movement string sextet "Verklärte Nacht" ("Transfigured Night") (1899), again following Sala's rearranged score.
"A sextet of authentically costumed musicians, singing or playing medieval instruments, and a troubadour-narrator evoked a courtly pastime in an hourlong performance that can only be described as perfect," Raymond Ericson wrote in The Times of a 1971 concert at the Hunter College Playhouse.
These were six people who could snipe at one another, who could fight and lie and practice what we'd now call radical honesty yet keep so many secrets, who can break up (many times, in many ways) but, as a sextet, keep snapping back together.
A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, Cobb is the last living member of the sextet that made Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue," and he has recorded hundreds of albums with other eminent jazz figures: Cannonball Adderley, Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane and more.
This weekend he presents a new sextet, Life Cycles, featuring a mix of long-term members of his Fellowship Band and newer collaborators: the pianist Jon Cowherd, the vibraphonist and vocalist Monte Croft, the guitarist John Hart, the saxophonist Myron Walden and the bassist Doug Weiss.
He danced two world premieres here: the solo "38109," with music by himself and the composer-performer Caroline Shaw, and "Ascending Bird," a sextet amalgamating jookin with tap, in which he and Ms. Dorrance led four other performers, including Ron Myles and Phyouture "Lil P," both marvelously individual jookers.
"In Pursuit Of" is a jolly sextet danced by three young women and three young men from City Ballet, at its most individual in a duet for Ms. Hod and Devin Alberda: Ms. Hod makes us see the uncertainty of their changing relationship from her inquiring point of view.
The work, "La Nuit S'Achève" ("The Night Ends") is a sextet to Beethoven's stormy Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, known as the "Appassionata" (played by Alain Planès); it shows Mr. Millepied's trademark fluency and skill in its smoothly evolving transitions from complex ensemble interactions to pas de deux tender or tempestuous.
" The compelling program will also include Mr. Reich's 219 "Quartet" and his Pulitzer Prize-winning 21 "Double Sextet," as well as a classic for which the composer will be, quite literally, on hand: The evening will open with Mr. Reich providing two of the four hands required to perform his 22014 "Clapping Music.
Mr. Lederer, a tenor saxophonist whose perfervid style owes much to Ayler's influence, has paid tribute to "New Grass" by throwing another esoteric wild card into the mix: On "Heart Love," a new album by his sextet Shakers n' Bakers, Mr. Lederer mingles Ayler's late-career music with hymns from the Shaker tradition.
The speaker, a small sextet of holes located on the bottom of the device just to the left of the USB-C port, got plenty loud, though you're going to want to connect to a Bluetooth speaker or plug in a pair of headphones in you plan on listening for an extended period of time.
Those works flank a larger canvas depicting an unidentified female nude with no recognizable facial features — scholars insist it's Mathilde — and in the room plays a selection of Schönberg's pieces including Verklärte Nacht, a string sextet inspired by a poem of the same name, which Schoenberg set to music in 1899, while infatuated with Mathilde.
"Henry Threadgill or Naturally 7 or One For All or DJ Logic, whoever it is — there's some sort of a spiritual, unspoken, musical bond there with all of it," he said, naming an avant-garde pioneer, a gospel-tinged a cappella group, a straight-ahead jazz sextet and a turntablist, all of whom were on the bill at this year's festival.
The First Great Quintet—Miles, John Coltrane, Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, Red Garland, and sometimes Julian "Cannonball" Adderley to make it a sextet—recorded what many consider to be the best jazz albums of all time, including 'Round About Midnight (280), a nod to the performance that landed him at Columbia, Milestones (21986), and the immortal Kind of Blue (21970), the highest selling jazz album ever.
Postcolonial history is central to "Transfigured Night" (2013/2018), a two-screen installation that juxtaposes footage of leaders from newly independent African countries visiting Washington in the early 1960s with texts by the philosophers Frantz Fanon and Friedrich Nietzsche, both narrated and appearing as written text in the film, and music by Arnold Schoenberg (whose string sextet gives the movie its title) and West African folk singers.
Instead, I stood in the front row for all of Ben LaMar Gay's riveting set — a tangle of samba, blues and math-rock, bouncing from Bubber Miley to Animal Collective — and then stuck around for Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society, a sextet featuring the bandleader on guimbri, Lisa Alvarado pulling chords out of a sighing harmonium, and Jason Stein playing sharply cut patterns on the bass clarinet.
On Sunday, the Orion String Quartet plays a quartet by Haydn, is joined by the violist Matthew Lipman for Mozart's String Quintet in G minor and is further joined by the cellist Mihai Marica for Dvorak's String Sextet in A. On Wednesday, there's Beethoven's String Trio in G, Mendelssohn's Piano Quartet in F minor and Brahms's Piano Trio in C. Gloria Chien is the pianist; the string players are Alexander Sitkovetsky, Paul Neubauer and Clive Greensmith.
Here are some highlights I didn't get to mention in the review: the Vijay Iyer Sextet showcasing knotty, brittle tunes from its debut disc, "Far from Over;" Joanne Brackeen playing solo piano in an intimate room, moving from the rich, scattering abstraction of "Green Tea Soy Latte" to the boogie-woogie joy ride of "Knickerbocker Blues;" and Cecile McLorin Salvant, singing a slow, luxurious rendition of "Sophisticated Lady," embracing the song's pathos even while questioning its premise.

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