Jerry Jemmott

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Jerry Jemmott
funk, jazz, blues, blues rock
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)Bass guitar
Years active1958–present
LabelsAtlantic, P-Vine, Whachagonnado?
Websitejerryjemmott.com

Gerald Stenhouse Jemmott (born March 22, 1946) is an American bass guitarist. He was one of the chief session bassists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, working with many of the period's well-known soul, blues, and jazz artists.[1] He has won two Grammy Awards.

Biography

Born in

bass line on the song "Mr. Bojangles" and contributed to B.B. King's "The Thrill Is Gone". Jemmott and Duane Allman
would fly down to Muscle Shoals, to record for Atlantic. In 1971 King Curtis recorded his Rhythm & Blues hit, "Live at Filmore West" with Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Purdie, Billy Preston, and other members of the Kingpins.

After a near-fatal 1972 auto accident in

Boston Pops Orchestra. He was cited as a major influence by Jaco Pastorius, who incorporated Jemmott's funk bass lines into his own style.[2]
Jemmott hosted the instructional video Modern Electric Bass (1985) which featured advice from Pastorius.

Jemmott began his solo career in 1978, playing jazz, blues, R&B, reggae, and soul as Jerry Jemmott & Souler Energy, a group that over the years included

Grover Washington Jr. During this period of creative he got drummer Herbie Lovelle out of retirement to record Robert Johnson's music for producers Gene Heimlich and Clark Dimond. The album was Incarnation and it featured vocalist/actor Tucker Smallwood and guitarist Arlen Roth
, guitarist Pat Conte, TC James on keyboards and Jemmott on bass. Of note it was not released until 1994 with non existent exposure, but was reissued in 2019 as The Incarnation Blues Band On Soulitude Records.

Jemmott recorded solo albums for P-Vine Records, Caught in the Low Beam and The New York View, and Make It Happen! for WhatchaGonnaDo Records. He has written articles, books, and released audio and video bass instruction materials. He is the recipient of the 2001 Bass Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award and Chairman of the Electric Bass Department at the Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists.

In 2006, he joined Gregg Allman's backing band ("Gregg Allman & Friends"), in addition to Cornell Dupree's Soul Survivors. That same year, he was one of many guests at The Allman Brothers Band's 40th anniversary at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. In 2014 he rejoined Aretha Franklin on the David Letterman Show, Rolling in The Deep. He developed a universally recognizable ColorSoundMusic Learning System envisioned by Herbie Lovelle that he teaches at his Clinics and Workshops.

In 2023, Jemmott published his autobiography, MAKE IT HAPPEN!: The Life and Times of "The Groovemaster", Bassist Jerry Jemmott, in collaboration with editor William Knoblauch.[4]

Discography

Solo

  • New York View (P-Vine, 1995)
  • Make It Happen! (Whatchagonnado?, 2005)
  • Home Cookin' (Whatchagonnado?, 2006)
  • Bass on the Case (Whachagonnado?, 2009)
  • Addiction (Whachagonnado?, 2014)

As sideman

With Nina Simone

With Erma Franklin

With Lorraine Ellison

  • Stay With Me Baby (Warner Bros. Records, 1966)
  • You Don't Know Nothing About Love (Warner Bros. Records, 1966)

With King Curtis

With King Curtis and Champion Jack Dupree

  • Blues at Montreux (Atlantic SD1637, 1973)

With

Lightnin' Rod

With Carly Simon

With Al Kooper

With Aretha Franklin

With Janis Ian

With Freddie Hubbard

With George Benson

With Wilson Pickett

  • The Midnight Mover (Atlantic Records, 1968)
  • Hey Jude (Atlantic Records, 1969)

With

Gil Scott Heron

With Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper

  • Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12–13–68 (Columbia Records, 2003)

With

Candido Camero

With Hank Crawford

With Ben E. King

With Archie Shepp

With Eddie Harris

With Richard Groove Holmes

  • Comin' on Home
     (Blue Note Records, 1971)
  • American Pie (Groove Merchant, 1972)

With

B.B. King

° Live and Well (ABC Records, 1968)

With Herbie Mann

With Laura Nyro

With Houston Person

With Shirley Scott

With The Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Orchestra

References

  1. ^ a b c Huey, Steve. "Jerry Jemmott: Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  2. ISBN 0-87930-859-1
    , p 32.
  3. ^ "The Human Livestock Band & Revue". Jerryjemmott.com. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  4. ISBN 979-8395922021
    .

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