"I make musical sense out of anything I hear," proclaims Jerry Jemmott. "If you knock over this table, I'll continue the phrase it creates in my head. That's basically what I do on bass." As a seminal '60s and early '70s session bassist, the 53-year-old Jemmott had the music of Aretha Franklin, King Curtis, B.B.King, Wilson Pickett, Robert Flack, and the Rascals to inspire him. He is acknowledged as "One of the most influential bass players of the past 100 years who have changed the way we play."