Jerome Hunter
Jerome Hunter (born January 14, 1942, Spartanburg, South Carolina) is an American jazz double-bassist.
Jerome learned to play guitar in his youth but switched to stand-up bass at age 12, studying formally in both classical and jazz styles. He worked early in the 1960s with Ray Bryant, Roy Haynes, and Philly Joe Jones, then moved increasingly toward free jazz, playing with Marzette Watts in 1964 and Byard Lancaster in 1966-1967. Following this he worked with Ahmed Abdullah, Dorothy Donegan, Johnny Hammond, J. R. Mitchell, Sam Rivers, Sonny Sharrock, and Grover Washington, Jr.. He played with Jamaaladeen Tacuma in 1993.
Discography
With Byard Lancaster
- It's Not Up to Us (Vortex, 1966 [1968])
- Live at Macalester College (Dogtown, 1972) with J. R. Mitchell
gollark: You can actually still see "Terrariola is stupid" backward on startup, as an artifact of the original terrariola-annoying use.
gollark: But it began evolving, as I tried to improve the sandboxing.
gollark: The original aim was to annoy Terrariola.
gollark: But *how did a turtle 0 get there* and where did the potatOS installation come from?!
gollark: Disks, usually.
References
- Gary W. Kennedy, "Jerome Hunter". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
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