Steven Dirk Gilmore (born January 21, 1943, Trenton, New Jersey) is an American jazz double-bassist raised in the Philadelphia area.

Career

Steve picked up bass when he was 12 years old and played locally in Philadelphia as a teenager. At age 17 he enrolled at the Advanced School of Contemporary Music, run by Oscar Peterson, and later in the 1960s played with

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and the Baker's Dozen Big Band. He joined Flip Phillips's group in 1967 and remained with Phillips until 1971, after which he worked with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, Mose Allison,

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, Phil Woods, Richie Cole, and the

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. In the 1980s he played with

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, Meredith D'Ambrosio, Dave Frishberg,

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, and Toshiko Akiyoshi, as well as with Phil Woods. He and Woods would remain collaborators into the 1990s. In 1988 he began working with Dave Liebman, with whom he would work intermittently through the late 1990s. Other associations in the 1990s included Tony Bennett,

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, Susannah McCorkle,

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, and Jim Hall. In 2000, he played with

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in a group including Peter Bernstein, Mark Turner, Bill Goodwin 20191004 MLF 7814

References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gilmore, Steve 1943 births Living people American jazz double-bassists American male double-bassists Musicians from Trenton, New Jersey 21st-century double-bassists 21st-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians