Arthur Edward Booth known as Jiunie, Junie, Junius, Joony, Juini, etc., is an American jazz

Jazz

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 double-bassist.

Booth began playing piano at about age eight, and switched to bass at 12. He worked with Chuck Mangione

Chuck Mangione

Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.-Early life and career:...

 in his hometown in 1964-65 before moving to New York City

New York City

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 around 1966, where he played with Eddie Harris

Eddie Harris

Eddie Harris was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ...

, Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....

 (1967), Sonny Simmons

Sonny Simmons

Huey "Sonny" Simmons is an American jazz musician.He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the english horn. At age 16 he took up the alto saxophone, which became his primary instrument...

 (1967-68), Marzette Watts

Marzette Watts

Marzette Watts was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He had a brief career in music but is revered for his 1966 self-titled free jazz release....

 (1966, 1968), Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

 (1968-71), Erroll Garner

Erroll Garner

Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a jazz standard...

 (1970), and Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist.Bartz graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and The Juilliard School...

 (1970). He played with Shelly Manne

Shelly Manne

Shelly Manne , born Sheldon Manne in New York City, was an American jazz drummer. Most frequently associated with West Coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played in a number of other styles, including Dixieland, swing, bebop, avant-garde jazz and fusion, as well as contributing...

 in Hollywood in 1969.

In the early 1970s Booth played with Tony Williams's Lifetime (1971-73) and McCoy Tyner

McCoy Tyner

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 (1973-76), also recording during this time with Larry Young (1973), Takehiro Honda, and Masabumi Kikuchi

Masabumi Kikuchi

is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer born in Tokyo, Japan, notable for working with a variety of well known jazz musicians such as Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Mal Waldron, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Billy Harper and Hannibal Peterson.-Select...

, the last two during a tour of Tokyo

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 in 1974. After a short period with Hamiett Bluiett in 1976 he returned to live in Buffalo, though he also worked with Chico Freeman

Chico Freeman

Chico Freeman is a modern jazz tenor saxophonist and trumpeter and son of jazz saxophonist Von Freeman...

 in Los Angeles and Junior Cook

Junior Cook

Herman "Junior" Cook was a hard bop tenor saxophone player.-Biography:Cook was born in Pensacola, Florida. After playing with Dizzy Gillespie in 1958, Cook gained some fame for his longtime membership in the Horace Silver Quintet ; when he and Blue Mitchell left that band, Cook played in...

 in New York in 1977. In 1977-78 he played with Elvin Jones

Elvin Jones

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 and Charles Tolliver

Charles Tolliver

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.

From 1980 to 1982 he played with Ernie Krivda

Ernie Krivda

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 in Cleveland, as well as locally in Buffalo. He recorded freelance with Beaver Harris

Beaver Harris

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 (1983), Steve Grossman and Joe Chambers

Joe Chambers

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 (1984), and others. He worked with Sun Ra

Sun Ra

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 as an electric bass

Electric Bass

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ist in 1989, playing with the Arkestra again in 1996.

Juini currently lives and works in New York City.