sideman
副手,副驾驶,旁观者,旁听生
Definitions
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plural side·men [sahyd-men, -muhn]. /ˈsaɪdˌmɛn, -mən/.
- : an instrumentalist in a band or orchestra.
- : an instrumentalist supporting a soloist or a principal performer.
Examples
Between 1956 and 1971, his prolific output for Blue Note resulted in 25 albums as leader and nearly twice as many recordings as a sideman and featured player, with Morgan always balancing his early influences and searching for new directions.
It’s been around 60 years since Corea emerged on the New York jazz scene as a promising young sideman.
Although he was admitted into Juilliard for piano, he quickly dropped out and became a sought-after jazz sideman for his crisp agility and ingenious chord voicings, playing with Sarah Vaughan, Mongo Santamaría, Stan Getz and others.
He’s recorded hundreds of albums as both leader and sideman and performed thousands of concerts touching all parts of the world, dating back to the 1940s.
And, the life of a sideman had become all the more difficult in recent years.
After 19 years, when will he be promoted from sideman to full member of the Rolling Stones?