Jabo Starks

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John "Jabo" Starks (also Jab'o , pronounced: Jäbb-ou ; * October 25 or 26, 1938 in Jackson , Clarke County or Mobile , Alabama ; † May 1, 2018 in Mobile) was an American radio - and Blues - drummer . Together with Clyde Stubblefield he shaped the drum groove of the James Brown bands and helped develop the funk style on the drums.

Life

Jabo grew up with four siblings in Prichard and attended high school in Plateau near Chickasaw . In his parents' house he came into contact with blues and gospel at an early age . While watching a Mardi Gras parade in Mobile, he became interested in drumming in 1952. After graduating from high school in 1955, Jabo soon began jamming at the Harlem Duke Social Club in Mobile with blues greats like John Lee Hooker , Smiley Lewis , Gatemouth Brown and Big Mama Thornton - without ever taking any classes.

An important career opportunity opened up for him when Bobby Bland brought him into his band in 1959 as the successor to Sonny Freeman, who moved to BB King . Jabo called his time with Bobby Bland his apprenticeship years. He has played a number of Bland's greatest hits as a drummer, including: B. Turn On Your Love Light , I Pity the Fool, and That's the Way Love Is . On January 2, 1966, he left the band after James Brown made him an offer. In addition to the second main drummer, Clyde Stubblefield, who was hired two weeks after him, he completed James Brown's all-important rhythm section. He, delighted with the commitment of Jabo Starks, recorded a song dedicated to him in 1966 - Jabo . After almost all members - besides Maceo Parker , Pee Wee Ellis and other formative figures of the early James Brown sound, also Clyde Stubblefield - had left the band in 1970 , Jabo was the sole drummer of the new group around Bootsy Collins , which as JB's also had their own records published. Stark's game is immortalized on the James Brown classics The Payback , Sex Machine , and Super Bad , among others . In 1975 he decided to leave James Brown and become part of the BB King band; a move that also involved a change in style from funk to blues. He played with him for a few years.

Jabo Stark's drumming lives on in modern styles of music such as hip-hop : with Clyde Stubblefield he is one of the most sampled drummers. He has had a deep friendship with Stubblefield since her James Brown time. The Rolling Stone listed the two together as sixth of the 100 best drummers of all time .

Starks lived in Grayton Beach ( Florida ) and mobile.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jabo Starks at Meinl Cymbals , accessed on September 16, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Jim Payne: The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk and Soul . Mel Bay Publications, 2010, ISBN 1609745825 , pp. 52 ff. ( Available online at Google Books, accessed September 17, 2015)
  3. ↑ a b c d e Breck Pappas: The Amazing Life of Jabo Starks. ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Mobile Bay Magazine, September 2015, accessed September 26, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mobilebaymag.com
  4. ^ Daniel E. Slotnik: Jabo Starks, Drummer for James Brown, Dies at 79. In: The New York Times. May 1, 2018, accessed May 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Charles Farley: Soul Of The Man. Bobby "Blue" Bland . University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2011. ISBN 978-1-60473-919-0 , pp. 106 f. ( available online at Google Books , accessed September 16, 2015)
  6. ↑ a b The Original Funky Drummers On Life With James Brown. National Public Radio , January 5, 2015, accessed September 17, 2015
  7. ↑ Stanton Moore : Groove Alchemy . Hudson Music, 2010, ISBN 9781423475163 , p. 14
  8. ↑ 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time. Rolling Stone , March 31, 2016, accessed August 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Starks, Jabo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Starks, John; Starks, Jab'o
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American funk and blues drummer
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1938 or October 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Jackson , Clarke County or Mobile , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH 1st May 2018
Place of death Mobile , Alabama