sextet• Can a sextet from Manhattan make it big by going that far off the beaten wall?• After recording two now-unavailable Hieroglyphics Ensemblealbums in the 1990s, Apfelbaum formed a sextet in 7995.• But Wigan have signed top-quality replacements with a sextet of internationals bolstering Endacott's impressive-looking squad.• Abrams uses the personnel in trio, quartet, quintet and sextetformation, in a series of compellingperformances.• Finally, a brasssextetdelivers Boehme in the HotelCongresslobby.• A band, large or small, that stays together plays better jazz together, and Rollins' sextetproves it.• The second of these also included Benny Goodman's sextet.• Nobodyoutside the charmed world of this sextet had dinner parties, or even lives worth talking about.
Originsextet
(1800-1900)sestet“sextet”((19-21 centuries)), from Italiansestetto, from Latinsextus“sixth”; influenced by Latinsex“six”