Is playing to track cheating

My band Sungazer plays to backing tracks are we cheating Or are we simply continuing the tradition of Pierre Schaefer and the electroacoustic avantgarde of the 1950 s that just a pretentious way of justifying lazy practice I was recently on an episode of PBS Sound Field where I jammed with Nahre Sol, a classical pianist, and LA Buckner, a gospel, R B drummer, and talked about our different backgrounds and approaches to playing. Check it out The ba