He performed eight numbers in a pickup band that included trumpeter Dexter Culbertson.

Chuck Berry used to hire inferior pickup bands, in part to ensure that the spotlight shone on him.

National teams are generally pickup bands, by definition.

Whenever this happened, Gosz would hire a pickup band and play one engagement, and he would send his orchestra to work the other.

The lead guitarist in Tuesday night's pickup band was a bearded 40-year-old in a gaudy short-sleeve shirt.

The fee engagements keep the orchestra playing, but there is no role for a music director in the orchestra's work as a high-profile pickup band.

On Wednesday he gave a charming, low-stress performance with a pickup band.

It was like listening to the late Steveland Wonder trying to work with a pickup band in a Montreal bar.

Since I know next to nothing about music he is going to teach me my job in this pickup band.

He bummed around the country and played alto with pickup bands, taking Hudson Healy's surname.