Marcus Gilmore

Last updated

Marcus Gilmore
MG Side Profile Poncho Shot copy.jpg
Gilmore in 2023
Background information
Also known asDrummerslams
Born Hollis, Queens, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, producer, musical director
InstrumentsDrums

Marcus Gilmore (born October 10, 1986) is an American jazz drummer. In 2009, New York Times critic Ben Ratliff included Gilmore in his list of drummers who are "finding new ways to look at the drum set, and at jazz itself", saying, "he created that pleasant citywide buzz when someone new and special blows through New York clubs and jam sessions". [1]

Contents

Biography

A graduate of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, [2] Gilmore also received full ride scholarships to the Juilliard School of Music and Manhattan School of Music. He has been touring professionally since the age of sixteen. [3]

The New York based musician was a protégé of the 2018 Rolex Mentors And Protégé project. [4]

He has performed or recorded with Mulatu Astatke, Chick Corea, Pharoah Sanders, Savion Glover, Pat Metheny, Ambrose Akinmusire, Ravi Coltrane, Common, Flying Lotus, Robert Glasper, Natalie Cole, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Derrick Hodge, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, Thundercat, Brad Mehldau, Cassandra Wilson, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Nicholas Payton, Jill Scott, Talib Kweli, Queen Latifah, Norah Jones, Black Thought, Zakir Hussain, The Cadillacs, Bilal, Terrence Blanchard, Roy Hargrove, Terrace Martin, Taylor Mcferrin, and Fred Armisen.  

Gilmore was featured on the cover of Modern Drummer Magazine for their June 2019 issue.  

Gilmore was chosen as a primary artist to contribute to the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the 2020 Disney-Pixar film Soul.

Gilmore was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra to write his first Orchestral work, which debuted in 2020 with members of the Cape Town Philharmonic. In June 2023, he premiered his full composition with the American Composers Orchestra, in NYC.

Awards and honors

Gilmore won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for Antidote , as part of Chick Corea's band. [5]

Gilmore was introduced as one of the “25 for the Future” by DownBeat magazine in 2016. [6]

Musical style

Like his grandfather Roy Haynes, Gilmore draws upon a wide variety of influences from Tony Williams to free jazz drummer Milford Graves. [7] When talking about Graves in Modern Drummer, he said "A lot of Milford’s playing deals with rhythm, but not in a very metric way—it’s non-metric, a lot of waves. It’s still melodic, even more so because it’s very linguistic. Milford doesn’t even really play snares. He keeps the snares off. His drumming sounds very melodic and very lyrical. It sounds like a language." [8] He has specifically cited Elvin Jones on the album Speak No Evil and Tony Williams' Lifetime as influences.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

As sideman

With Ambrose Akinmusire

With Steve Coleman

With Chick Corea

With Sullivan Fortner

With Graham Haynes

With Gilad Hekselman

With In Common: Walter Smith III & Matthew Stevens

With Vijay Iyer

With Joe Martin

With Taylor McFerrin

With Nicholas Payton

With Chris Potter

With Gonzalo Rubalcaba

With Mark Turner

Main source: [11]

References

  1. ↑ Ratliff, Ben (June 11, 2009). "Five Drummers Whose Time Is Now". New York Times. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Sound Lab Recording Studio, funded by Adidas, has Grand Opening". www.laguardiahs.org. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Chick Corea's Marcus Gilmore". Modern Drummer Magazine. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Sulcas, Roslyn (February 5, 2018). "David Adjaye and Colm Toibin Among New Mentors in Rolex Program". The New York Times. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Marcus Gilmore". grammy.com/. Retrieved February 15, 2025.
  6. ↑ Morrison, Allen (July 2016). "25 for the Future / Marcus Gilmore". DownBeat . Vol. 83, no. 7. Chicago. p. 32. Retrieved March 8, 2020.
  7. ↑ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine : Z LIVE One on One with Aaron Spears and Marcus Gilmore. YouTube .
  8. ↑ "Chick Corea's Marcus Gilmore".
  9. ↑ Margasak, Peter (November 2023). "BlankFor.ms/Jason Moran/Marcus Gilmore: Refract". DownBeat . Vol. 90, no. 11. p. 50.
  10. ↑ Hobart, Mike (February 14, 2025). "Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights Album Review – New Orleans Pianist in Bold and Free-Flowing Form". Financial Times . Retrieved February 15, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Marcus Gilmore | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.