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Jymie Merritt (May 3, 1926 – April 10, 2020) was an American jazz double-bassist, electric-bass and bass guitar pioneer, band leader and composer. Merritt was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers group from 1957 until 1962.
12 de abr. de 2020 · Uno de los grandes contrabajistas de la era moderna del jazz, Jymie Merritt, murió el viernes 10 en Filadelfia, a los 93 años, a causa de un cáncer de hígado, según anunció su hijo, también...
We are pleased to present this site to introduce you to the original music of a Philadelphia–bred Jazz communicator: bassist and composer Jymie (pronounced “Jimmy”) Merritt. “Forerunner” is a creative Jazz concept that uses numbers as a tool for gaining access to and exploring the energies of the historical forces of Jazz music—the ...
11 de abr. de 2020 · Jymie Merritt passed away on April 10, according to social media posts by his son, Mike Merritt. The Philadelphia-born bassist, an enduring member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, was 93. A cause of death was not immediately made clear; the younger Merritt, also a bassist, wrote that it was unrelated to COVID–19.
11 de abr. de 2020 · Published April 11, 2020 at 12:42 PM EDT. Courtesy of the artist. Jymie Merritt, a bassist who anchored some of the leading groups of jazz’s postwar era, like Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, before establishing his own sphere of influence as a composer and theorist in Philadelphia, died on Friday. He was 93.
13 de abr. de 2020 · Jymie Merritt, 93, the Philadelphia jazz bassist and composer who played with Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, B.B. King, and many others in a career that spanned seven decades, has died. His son Mike, also a bass player, said his father died at his home in Center City on Friday, April 10. The cause was liver cancer.
Biography. A classically trained player with a surging style characterized by the frequent use of triplet figures and putting notes ahead of the beat, Jymie Merritt made a successful switch from jazz to R&B and blues and back to jazz again in the ’50s. Merritt played with John Coltrane, Benny Golson, and Philly Joe Jones in 1949, but worked ...
