Jymie Merritt

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 with Bull Moose Jackson and B.B. King playing electric bass in the ...more