Marcus Gilmore

Drummer Marcus Gilmore is a sensitive, melodic player, influenced equally by Tony Williams and Milford Graves and international percussion traditions. Gilmore has amassed many credits and worked with Vijay Iyer while concurrently playing with guitarists Gilad Hekselman and Lage Lund. He spent several years with Chick Corea, netting four acclaimed albums, among them 2013's Latin Grammy-winning The Vigil. In 2018, he joined In Common alongside Walter Smith III, Matthew Stevens, Joel Ross, and Harish Raghavan, and they issued an acclaimed eponymous album. In 2023, Gilmore, pianist Jason Moran, and electronicist BlankFor.Ms released the experimental Refract, which he followed with the lush jazz ballad "For Loved Ones," leading a quartet with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, David Virelles, and Burniss Travis. In 2025, Gilmore joined pianist Craig Taborn and guitarist Nels Cline on Trio of Bloom, before reuniting with Moran and BlankFor.Ms on 2026's Shards.