: a member of a band or orchestra and especially of a jazz or swing orchestra
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But the movie’s headliner was Carl Weathers — for once not a sideman, but the star.
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Chris Klimek, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
Until that day, Coltrane had been the overachieving sideman, playing someone else’s music in someone else’s band.
—Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
Correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with Billy Joel sideman Mark Rivera; catcher Erik Kratz, who spent 11 seasons with 14 different major league organizations; and Kayla Pecchioni, whose Broadway performances are often stepping into the shoes of the star.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
Big Time is the one with a companion film and the songs and sidemen from his most popular albums, but Glitter and Doom Live edges it out as the more essential of Waits’s two conventional concert releases.
—Al Shipley, Spin, 3 Oct. 2023
In the 1970s, Davis became a coveted sideman for pop artists, playing on Laura Nyro’s Smile and Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. and Born to Run.
—Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Pitchfork, 8 Sep. 2023
Big releases from Drake, Doja Cat, and Nicki Minaj promise to populate your fall flowerbeds with an earworm or two, while Oneohtrix Point Never is burrowing back underground after his triumphant stint as the Weeknd’s sideman.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2023
European tours and repeat Newport bookings may seem improbable for someone his age, but Wilkins has achieved these things on the strength of two superlative albums over the past three years, alongside an array of significant sideman work.
—Bill Beuttler, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
For the next two decades, Mr. Donato recorded almost entirely as a sideman.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 21 July 2023
Chris Klimek, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
Until that day, Coltrane had been the overachieving sideman, playing someone else’s music in someone else’s band.
—Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
Correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with Billy Joel sideman Mark Rivera; catcher Erik Kratz, who spent 11 seasons with 14 different major league organizations; and Kayla Pecchioni, whose Broadway performances are often stepping into the shoes of the star.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
Big Time is the one with a companion film and the songs and sidemen from his most popular albums, but Glitter and Doom Live edges it out as the more essential of Waits’s two conventional concert releases.
—Al Shipley, Spin, 3 Oct. 2023
In the 1970s, Davis became a coveted sideman for pop artists, playing on Laura Nyro’s Smile and Bruce Springsteen’s Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. and Born to Run.
—Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Pitchfork, 8 Sep. 2023
Big releases from Drake, Doja Cat, and Nicki Minaj promise to populate your fall flowerbeds with an earworm or two, while Oneohtrix Point Never is burrowing back underground after his triumphant stint as the Weeknd’s sideman.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2023
European tours and repeat Newport bookings may seem improbable for someone his age, but Wilkins has achieved these things on the strength of two superlative albums over the past three years, alongside an array of significant sideman work.
—Bill Beuttler, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
For the next two decades, Mr. Donato recorded almost entirely as a sideman.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 21 July 2023
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“Sideman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sideman. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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