Certain jazz combo Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. eight performers or singers who perform together
2. a musical composition written for eight performers

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CERTAIN (adjective)
1. having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
2. certain to occur; destined or inevitable
JAZZ (noun)
1. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
2. a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
JAZZ (verb)
1. have sexual intercourse with
2. play something in the style of jazz

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