Jymie Merritt is an American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 double-bassist.

Biography

Raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

, he has worked in jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

, and blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

. He has worked with Bull Moose Jackson

Bull Moose Jackson

Benjamin Clarence "Bull Moose" Jackson was an American blues and rhythm and blues singer and saxophonist, who was most successful in the late 1940s.-Career:...

, B. B. King

B. B. King

Riley B. King , known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No.3 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M...

, Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....

 and the Jazz Messengers, John Coltrane

John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz...

, Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan

Edward Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter.-Biography:...

, Chet Baker

Chet Baker

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...

, Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...

, and Max Roach

Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history...

, among others.

He was an early adopter of the Ampeg

Ampeg

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 bass (a hybrid acoustic-electric instrument) and founded Forerunner, a community organization in Philadelphia.

He is the father of a bassist Mike Merritt from Conan.

As sideman

With Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....

• Moanin (1958)
• Africane
  Africaine (Art Blakey album)
  Africaine includes 1959 recordings by jazz artist Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. These recordings were not released until over 20 years after it was recorded. This album features tenor-saxophonist Wayne Shorter in his first recording with The Jazz Messengers, the great trumpeter Lee Morgan,...
  
   (1959)
• At the Jazz Corner of the World
  At the Jazz Corner of the World
  At the Jazz Corner of the World is a two volume live album by American jazz drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers featuring performances recorded in 1959 at Birdland and released on the Blue Note label. The album was originally issued as 12 inch LP's in two volumes and later rereleased as...
  
   (1959)
• The Big Beat
  The Big Beat (Art Blakey album)
  The Big Beat is an album by Art Blakey and his group The Jazz Messengers recorded on March 6, 1960 and released on the Blue Note label. It features performances by Blakey with Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, and Jymie Merritt.- Track listing :...
  
   (1960)
• Like Someone in Love
  Like Someone in Love (Art Blakey album)
  Like Someone in Love is an album by Art Blakey and his group The Jazz Messengers recorded on August 7 and 14 1960, at the same sessions which produced A Night in Tunisia and released on the Blue Note label...
  
   (1960)
• A Night In Tunisia
  A Night in Tunisia
  "A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942 while he was playing with the Earl Hines Band. It has become a jazz standard....
  
   (1960)
• Mosaic
  Mosaic (Art Blakey album)
  Mosaic is a 1961 jazz album released by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for Blue Note Records.This is the first release by one of the most critically acclaimed Jazz Messengers lineups: Wayne Shorter , Freddie Hubbard , Curtis Fuller , Cedar Walton , Jymie Merritt , and Art Blakey...
  
   (1961)
• A Day with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1961)
• Pisces
  Pisces (Art Blakey album)
  Pisces is a jazz album released by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for Blue Note Records.-Track listing:# "United" -# "Ping Pong" -# "Pisces" -# "Blue Ching" -# "Uptight" -...
  
   (1961)
• The Freedom Rider
  The Freedom Rider
  The Freedom Rider is an album by jazz drummer Art Blakey and his group the Jazz Messengers. Continuing Blakey's distinct brand of hard bop, this album features contributions from Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Blakey himself, and Kenny Dorham, a former Jazz Messenger...
  
   (1961)
• Roots & Herbs
  Roots & Herbs
  Roots & Herbs is a 1961 jazz album released by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for Blue Note Records.-Track listing:All compositions by Wayne Shorter.# Ping Pong – 7:06# Roots and Herbs – 6:03# The Back Sliders – 7:49...
  
   (1961)
• Three Blind Mice
  Three Blind Mice (album)
  Three Blind Mice is a 1962 jazz album released by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for Blue Note Records. It features live material recorded in 1961....
  
   (1962)

With Curtis Fuller

Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller is an American jazz trombonist, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings.-Biography:...

• Soul Trombone
  Soul Trombone
  Soul Trombone is an album by American jazz trombonist Curtis Fuller featuring performances recorded in 1961 for the Impulse! label.-Reception:...
  
  (Impulse!, 1961)