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50 years ago, the great Jerry Jemmott endured career-threatening injuries in two incidents

“These things happen all the time, but you never believe it until it happens to you”
Jerry Jemmott

Gerald ‘Jerry’ Jemmott, born in the South Bronx in New York in 1946, was a rising star by the time he was 25. Influenced by Miles Davis’s bassist Paul Chambers as

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