| Jymie Merritt |
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| 1926 births | |
| american jazz double-bassists | |
| hard-bop double-bassists | |
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| pennsylvania musicians | |
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Jymie is perhaps best known for his years touring and recording as an acoustic bassist with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1958-62). He appears on numerous titles with this group, including such classics as ''Moanin''' and ''A Night in Tunisia''. A number of sources have credited Jymie Merritt with inventing the Quintet (1965-68) and Lee Morgan Quintet (1970-72), including Morgan's ''Live at the Lighthouse'', employ the Ampeg bass. He also used the Ampeg with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band and Quintet and with a number of other groups, including groups led by Lee Shaw, Al Haig, and Archie Shepp. In periods between touring, Merritt started the Forerunner movement in Philadelphia and served as its artistic guide. The Forerunners--later called Forerunner--brought together performing artists linked by ideas of community and creative exploration. From 1998 through 2005, Merritt performed weekly on the acoustic bass in a jazz duo at The Prime Rib restaurant in Philadelphia, PA. To quote reviewer Devin Leonard, "Merritt is also an interesting modern composer with a penchant for odd meters and rhythmic patterns." Merritt's newest compositions explore these patterns in a computer-driven context in which he performs on a six-string upright bass. |
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