Jymie Merritt is an American double-bassist, electric-bass pioneer, band leader and composer in the Jazz idiom. Merritt originally worked with rock and roll pioneers Chris Powell and Bull Moose Jackson before working with BB King for several years. In 1957 Jymie moved to New York City, to join Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, who he recorded seventeen albums with. In 1962 he moved on to forming his own group the Forerunners, and also worked with Chet Baker, Max Roach, Sonny Clark, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Benny Golson, Jimmy Witherspoon and Dizzy Gillespie. Merritt began playing the electric bass within the first year of joining Bull Moose Jackson in 1949. He has received the the Clef Club of Philadelphia's Living Legend Jazz Award, the Jazz Heritage Award of the Philadelphia Jazz Fair and the Don Redman Heritage Award. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Samb Hicks
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On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This feature documentary by Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together. A film about love, jazz and America.