Bobby Stark

Bobby Stark (born January 6, 1906 in New York , † December 29, 1946 ibid) was a jazz trumpeter of hot jazz and swing . He played in Chick Webb's band .

Live and act

Stark initially had engagements in New York with June Clark (1925) and an early edition of McKinney's Cotton Pickers . In 1926 and 1927 he played with Chick Webb . From 1928 to 1933 he became a well-known soloist through Fletcher Henderson's orchestra (as heard in the tracks " Hop Off ", " I'm Feeling Devilish ", " Feeling Good ", " The Wang Wang Blues "). He also worked on recordings of the Chocolate Dandies (" Dee Blues ", " Bugle Call Rag ", 1930) and returned to Chick Webb's orchestra in 1934 (" Midnite in Madhouse ", " Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie ", 1937). Strong also remained in Webb's band when Ella Fitzgerald took over the leadership of the band after Webb's death in 1939. In 1942 he did his military service, but was soon discharged from the army due to illness. In 1944 he works with Garvin Bushell ; his last recordings were made in 1944 with Herbie Fields and in 1945 with Benny Morton .

Stark was strongly influenced by Louis Armstrong , but in the course of the 1930s he developed a personal style of playing characterized by hot intonation.

literature

• John Jörgensen, Erik Wiedemann : Jazz Lexicon . Munich, mosaic, 1967
• Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .

Web links

• Bobby Stark at Allmusic (English)
• Information at Vervemusic