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Discography as a Leader

Group Title Record Label
David Gilmore Quartet with Special Guests Ritualism Kashka Music

Selected Discography as a Sideman

Artist/Band Title Record Label
Muhal Richard Abrams Think All, Focus One Soul Note
The Black Rock Coalition/BluePrint The History of our Future Rykodisc
Don Byron Quintet Nu Blaxploitation Bluenote Records
Don Byron Quintet Bug Music Nonesuch
Don Byron Quintet No Vibe Zone Knitting Factory Records
Uri Caine Love Fugúe-Robert Schúmann Winter & Winter
Vincent Chancey Welcome Mr. Chancey In&Out Records
Steve Coleman & 5 Elements Genesis: The Opening of the Way BMG
Steve Coleman & 5 Elements The Tao of Mad Phat BMG
Steve Coleman & 5 Elements Drop Kick BMG
Steve Coleman & 5 Elements Black Science BMG
Steve Coleman & 5 Elements Rhythm People BMG
Steve Coleman & 5 Elements Sine Die - Pangaea BMG
Come Together Guitar tribute to The Beatles, Vol 2 NYC Records
Chris Minh Doky Minh EMI
Trilok Gurtu Bad Habits Die Hard CMP
Trilok Gurtu Believe CMP
Graham Haynes What Time it Be Muse
Thomas Lang The Mediator Koch International
Christian McBride Sci-Fi Verve
Lost Tribe Soul Fish Windham Hill
Lost Tribe Lost Tribe Windham Hill
The M-Base Collective Anatomy of a Groove CBS/Sony
Opus Akoben Art of War BMG
Greg Osby 3-D Lifestyles Bluenote/Capitol
Greg Osby Man Talk for Moderns, Vol. X Bluenote/Capitol
Lonnie Plaxico Short Takes Muse
Lonnie Plaxico Iridescence Muse
Rise Robots Rise Spawn TVT
Wayne Shorter High Life Verve
Strata Institute Transmigration C&M/Sony
Strata Institute Cipher Syntax Polygram
Steve Williamson Rhyme Time Polydor
Steve Williamson A Waltz for Grace Polydor
Cassandra Wilson Jumpworld Polygram

Discography as a Producer

with Artist Title Record Label
Kevin Bruce Harris And They Walked Amongst the People Enja
Lost Tribe (Co-producer/leader on) Lost Tribe Windham Hill
Lost Tribe (Co-producer/leader on) Soul Fish Windham Hill

Biography

Since his arrival in New York City in 1984, David Gilmore has become one of the most in-demand guitarists on the jazz scene, having recorded on over 40 albums. He has been a major presence on the national and international music scene, having toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Japan and Indonesia.

Born February 5th, 1964, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gilmore sought out music at a young age experimenting with piano, drums and percussion before discovering the guitar at age 15. After a few years of private study with Boston local guitar gurus John Baboian and Randy Roos, Gilmore moved to New York to attend New York University, where he studied under saxophonist Joe Lovano and pianist Jim McNeely. Upon graduating in 1987, he began touring and recording extensively with Steve Coleman & 5 Elements, as well as with Cassandra Wilson, Greg Osby, Graham Haynes and other members of the fledging M-Base Collective. In 1989 he toured with drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and in 1990 joined clarinetist Don Byron’s quintet, and also became a member of the group Lost Tribe, co-producing their first two recordings for the Windham Hill label. From the early 1990s onward Gilmore has been called for a wide variety of musical situations, recording and performing with some of the most influential musicians of the past decade including Wayne Shorter, Steve Coleman, Trilok Gurtu, David Sanborn, Randy Brecker, Sam Rivers, and Muhal Richard Abrams. He can be found most recently on recordings by Christian McBride, Uri Caine, Don Byron, and Chris Minh Doky . He has contributed his compositional skills to a variety of projects with Cassandra Wilson, Steve Coleman, M-Base, Lost Tribe, Trilok Gurtu, and Kevin Harris. He has also lent his skills to a variety of pop acts including Japan’s Monday Michiru, Tom Lang of Austria, and Rise Robots Rise in the U.S.

Gilmore is also an accomplished and inspiring educator, having taught master classes in Europe and the U.S. and teaching privately for over 15 years. In recognition of his commitment to teaching, he was honored in January 1994 with an award from the 21st annual International Association of Jazz Educators Convention for outstanding service to Jazz Education.

Gilmore has led a variety of groups of his own over the years, performing in the U.S. and Europe. In January 1997 he toured Europe with his band Global Theory, co-led by himself and altoist David Binney, from Lost Tribe, and in 1998 brought his trio to Austria.

In April 2000 Gilmore entered the recording studio with his most recent quartet and several guest artists including Ravi Coltrane and Binney and laid down 11 tracks, reflecting his varied musical experiences over the years. . "I’ve been very fortunate to work with some of the most forward-thinking and open-minded creative forces in music today, and their music has given me much to draw upon in creating my own sounds. I’ve learned many compositional and improvisational techniques from various people, but I’m more interested in studying the various ways an artist relates a thought, a feeling, or state of mind with a certain musical concept or idea - the way in which he/she attempts to bring their life’s experiences into the development of a song or improvisation".