A supporting musician in a jazz band or rock group.
（爵士乐或摇滚乐队的）伴奏队员
Example sentencesExamples
One of the things that's interesting to me is that you seem to be able to balance careers as both a sideman and as a leader of your own band.
A favourite sideman of Charles Mingus in the early 1960s, Ervin went on to form one of contemporary jazz's great quartets and recorded a series of seminal albums including The Freedom Book and The Space Book.
Do you think you could ever be a sideman in someone else's band?
Bassist Dave Young's credentials are many, as a sideman with some of the world's greatest jazz artists, and as a leader.
Duke Ellington brought an elegance to jazz composition that earned the respect of classical musicians, as well as the sidemen in his own band.
Definition of sideman in US English:
sideman
nounˈsīdmanˈsaɪdmæn
A supporting musician in a jazz band or rock group.
（爵士乐或摇滚乐队的）伴奏队员
Example sentencesExamples
Do you think you could ever be a sideman in someone else's band?
Bassist Dave Young's credentials are many, as a sideman with some of the world's greatest jazz artists, and as a leader.
Duke Ellington brought an elegance to jazz composition that earned the respect of classical musicians, as well as the sidemen in his own band.
One of the things that's interesting to me is that you seem to be able to balance careers as both a sideman and as a leader of your own band.
A favourite sideman of Charles Mingus in the early 1960s, Ervin went on to form one of contemporary jazz's great quartets and recorded a series of seminal albums including The Freedom Book and The Space Book.