house band

English

Noun

house band (plural house bands)

1. (music) A band that is regularly stationed at an establishment (restaurant, television studio, etc.)
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 308:

     For years, this 30-plus crew of session musicians, the house band at Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios, were crack accompanists.