David Gilmore

The notion that nothing spurs the creative process like a deadline fully matches the back story of David Gilmore’s second album for Criss Cross, on which the 54-year-old guitar master navigates eight never-recorded compositions of both recent and older vintage, and a pair of well-wrought covers.

The end result is an exceptionally vivid, varied date on which the leader showcases characteristically fluent chops, conceptual acumen and focused intention, matched by a rhythm section of New York first-callers.

PERSONNEL:

• DAVID GILMORE, guitars
• LUIS PERDOMO, piano
• BRAD JONES, bass
• E.J. STRICKLAND, drums

New York, September 12, 2018/p>

TRACKS:

• 01. Focus Pocus
• 02. Cyclic Episode
• 03. Metaverse
• 04. Child Of Time
• 05. When And Then
• 06. Innerlude
• 07. Interplay 08. The Long Game
• 09. Free Radicals
• 10. Libation