Like his fellow Sun Ra bandmates, John Gilmore and Pat Patrick, Boykins attended Chicago's DuSable High School and studied under its famed music teacher "Captain" Walter Dyett.
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In the course of his career, Boykins also worked with Mary Lou Williams, Marion Brown, Sarah Vaughan, and Daoud Haroom, among others.
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This is especially pronounced on the key recordings from 1965 (The Magic City, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One and The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two) where the intertwining lines of Boykins' bass and Ra's electronic keyboards provide the cohesion.
Ronnie Corbett | Ronnie Scott | Ronnie Wood | Ronnie O'Sullivan | Ronnie James Dio | Ronnie Barker | Ronnie Milsap | Ronnie Lane | Ronnie Hawkins | Ronnie Spector | Ronnie Moore | Ronnie Dyson | Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club | Ronnie Ross | Ronnie Radford | Ronnie Earl | Ronnie Coleman | Ronnie Brunswijk | Ronnie Aldrich | Ronnie Rüeger | Ronnie Rogers | Ronnie L. White | Ronnie Carroll | Ronnie Biggs | Ronnie Whelan | Ronnie Self | Ronnie McDowell | Ronnie Lazaro | Ronnie Laws | Ronnie Irani |
Other artists who have recorded for this label include Ornette Coleman (the "Town Hall Concert"), Pharaoh Sanders (who made his recording debut on ESP), Sun Ra, Ronnie Boykins, Marion Brown, Sonny Simmons, Paul Bley, Ran Blake, and Perry Robinson.
But as soon as they crossed the George Washington Bridge they collided with a taxi and bent one of the wheels of bassist Ronnie Boykins's father's car.