Jymie Merritt is an American double-bassist, electric-bass pioneer, band leader and composer in the jazz idiom. Merritt originally worked with rock and roll pioneers Chris Powell and Bull Moose Jackson before working with B.B. King for several years. In 1957, Jymie moved to New York City to join Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, who he recorded seventeen albums with. In 1962, he moved on to forming his own group The Forerunners, and also worked with Chet Baker, Max Roach, Sonny Clark, Lee Morg...
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