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> Jymie Merritt
Jymie Merritt
(born in
1926
in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
) is a classically trained
American
bass
player who has worked in
jazz
,
rhythm and blues
, and
blues
. He has worked with
Bull Moose Jackson
,
B. B. King
,
Art Blakey
and the
Jazz Messengers
,
John Coltrane
,
Chet Baker
,
Dizzy Gillespie
, and
Max Roach
, among others. He invented the Ampeg bass (a hybrid acoustic-electric instrument) and founded Forerunner, a community organization in Philadelphia.
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