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These five musicians are acclaimed bandleaders and sought-after sidemen, sometimes in each other’s ensembles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

At the retrial, Brooklyn prosecutors argued that the conviction was valid and that Scarcella and Chmil were just sidemen in a solid investigation.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022

From 1955 to 1957, he often had the best New Orleans sidemen backing him up, socking the backbeat and answering him with impudent saxophones.

From New York Times • May 10, 2020

While older sidemen played jazz or pop standards in formal blue blazers, Mr. Blaine and his younger cohort embraced rock-and-roll and dressed in jeans and T-shirts.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2019

Accordingly the act-books tell their interesting story of ministers on beginning service sending wardens and sidemen abroad to command men to come to church.

From The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Ware, Sedley Lynch