David Gilmore - Energies of Change: reaches for a new space in US post-bop

Guitarist David Gilmore (not to be confused with David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, but try telling the search engine that), first emerged as part of Steve Coleman’s M-Base collective, and, as such, was the white foam on the first wave of guitarists to apply the saxophonist’s rhythmic and harmonic complexity to six strings.

Those complexities are still audible in the Boston native's playing, but he has added a layer of other, more global influences, and his writing for Energies of Change reaches for a new space in the crowded field of US post-bop.

Since the group he recruited is from the very front rank of that scene, including saxophonist Marcus Strickland and drummer Antonio Sánchez, the playing here is more than worthy of the challenge.

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