iconic bass player Jerry Jemmott is back after a few years to talk about his book Make It Happen!: The Life and Times of "The Groovemaster," live at 6pm PST.
Jerry Jemmott is a two-time Grammy Award winning bassist and was a key architect of the Atlantic Records and Muscle Shoals sound of the 1960s & 1970s. Jerry's body of work provided the soundtrack to the Civil Rights Era. He played on Nina Simone Sings the Blues, Gil Scott Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” Aretha Franklin’s “Think,” B.B. King’s “The Thrill is Gone,” Wilson Pickett’s “Hey Jude,” Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles,” and albums by the Rascals, Freddie King, Freddie Hubbard, and many more. He was also the interviewer in Modern Electric Bass video with Jaco Pastorius and more recently had a starring role in the feature documentary Jaco , along with live televised performances with Gregg Allman and with Aretha Franklin on Late Night with David Letterman .