Team about to take on recording pioneer (6)
I believe the answer is:
edison
'recording pioneer' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'team about to take on' is the wordplay.
'team' becomes 'side' (both can mean a sports team).
'about' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'to take' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'side' in reverse letter order is 'edis'.
'edis'+'on'='EDISON'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for edison that I've seen before include "US scientist/inventor" , "Early American inventor" , "inventive sort" , "Prolific inventor" , "Inventor of the light bulb" .)