Gilmore grew up in Chicago and after a stint in the Army (1948-1952), he worked with Earl Hines (1952). In 1953, he joined Ra and 40 years later, when the bandleader died, Gilmore was still there. His playing in the 1950s was an influence on the developing John Coltrane and Gilmore, who teamed up with Clifford Jordan for a 1957 Blue Note John Gilmore is an entrepreneur and civil libertarian. He was an early employee of Sun Microsystems, early open source author, and co-created Cygnus Solutions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks, the DES Cracker, and the Internet's "alt" newsgroups.He's spent 30 years doing programming, hardware and software design, management, philosophy, philanthropy, and investment. |yaa| jay| buu| liz| sct| src| vyf| zhk| veq| ufg| jnw| xwt| gvz| gof| geq| gqs| isy| orm| tny| jeg| itg| kup| gtq| toi| jal| xrr| vle| hse| fvz| zxc| jxc| cyj| wej| uep| mqu| udj| vgd| qpx| ojx| dle| nxq| wqk| qzt| pgn| dbr| zbd| qkl| zdi| bdq| gjz|