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Jabo Starks

John Henry "Jabo" Starks (/ˈæb/; October 26, 1937[a] – May 1, 2018),[1] sometimes spelled Jab'o, was an American funk and blues drummer best known for playing with James Brown as well as other notable musicians including Bobby Bland and B.B. King. A self-taught musician, he was known for his effective and clean drum patterns. He was one of the originators of funk drumming, and is one of the most sampled drummers.[2][3]

John "Jabo" Starks
Background information
Birth nameJohn Henry Starks
Born(1937-10-26)October 26, 1937
Jackson, Alabama, U.S.
DiedMay 1, 2018(2018-05-01) (aged 80)
Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
GenresR&B, soul, blues, funk
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Drums
Years active1955–2018

Life and career edit

Starks was born in Jackson, Alabama, to Prince Starks and Ruth Watkins.[4] One of five children, he was nicknamed "Jabo" as a newborn.[5][6] He grew up in Mobile, Alabama. In the seventh grade, he was captivated by drumbeats at a Mardi Gras parade in Mobile and decided to pursue drumming. He was self-taught and had no formal training. He said he "learned a lot from listening" to music. Early on, he listened to blues music and was influenced by the gospel music he heard in church.[5][7] One of his drum idols was Shep Sheppard of the Bill Doggett band.[8] He graduated from Mobile County Training School in 1955, at the time a high school.[5][9] He then performed at the Harlem Duke Social Club where he backed notable blues and R&B musicians including John Lee Hooker, Smiley Lewis, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Big Mama Thornton and Howlin' Wolf.[4][5]

In 1959, Starks joined Bobby Bland's band and was the youngest member of the band. He said band members Pluma Davis and Joe Scott taught him the importance of holding the drum rhythm steady and having other musicians lock-in with drums. He said musically that was the best band he played with.[8][10] He was with the band from 1959 to 1965 and recorded on the band's releases over this period, including "Turn on Your Love Light", "Stormy Monday Blues", "That's the Way Love Is", "I Pity the Fool" and "Don't Cry No More".[11][10] He also recorded with other artists during this time such as Junior Parker and Joe Hinton, on songs "Driving Wheel" and "Funny".[8]

In 1965, Starks joined James Brown's band. From 1965 to 1970, the band had two drummers, Starks and Clyde Stubblefield.[7] Starks came primarily from a blues background whereas Stubblefield from a soul and jazz background.[12] They each performed solo on songs that fit their style. The two "created the grooves on many of Brown's biggest hits, and laid the foundation for modern funk drumming in the process."[7][3] In 1970, the band went through a major transformation with Stubblefield leaving the group in late 1970.[13] Starks continued performing with the reconfigured band which became known as The J.B.'s. Band members included bassist Bootsy Collins and rhythm guitarist Catfish Collins who along with Starks formed the rhythm section. The band also included trombonist Fred Wesley.[10][14] Starks toured and recorded with Brown until 1976.[5] Starks' recordings during his eleven-year association with Brown include "The Payback", "Sex Machine", "Soul Power", "Super Bad", "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing", "Doing It to Death", "Papa Don't Take No Mess", "Licking Stick – Licking Stick".[10][15] He also backed artists produced or managed by Brown, most notably Lyn Collins and Bobby Byrd, as well as the independent works released by The J.B.'s.[3]

Often uncredited, Starks and Stubblefield rank as two of the most sampled drummers on contemporary hip hop and R&B recordings.[7][3][10] Starks’ drum patterns have been sampled by LL Cool J, Kendrick Lamar, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, Black Eyed Peas, Kool Moe Dee, Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock, Total and others.[4][3][16] About the lack of recognition he said "the least they could do is say where they got [the samples] from."[5]

Starks left Brown's band in mid-1970s and joined blues artist B.B. King.[4] Starks was well versed in blues music in his early career. In regard to his transition from uptempo funk to laid-back blues, he said "to me, everything stems from playing the blues anyway."[5] He toured and recorded with King for six years.[4][17] His recordings with King include the albums Lucille Talks Back and King Size.[6]

Starks and Stubblefield remained friends. In 1999, they performed on The J.B.'s album Bring the Funk on Down.[6] The duo went on to release original music as the Funkmasters.[4] They released the album Find the Groove in 2001 and the album Come Get Summa This in 2006.[18][19] They released an instructional video titled Soul of the Funky Drummers.[20] In 2007, the duo joined Bootsy Collins for the first tribute concert in memory of James Brown and performed on the soundtrack for the movie Superbad.[21][4]

In his later years Starks lived in Mobile, Alabama.[11] From the mid-1990s onward, when not touring or recording, he performed five nights a week at the Picolo Restaurant and Red Bar in Grayton Beach, Florida, and on Sundays he played drums at his church in Mobile. He performed until March 2018. He said over the years he learned little tricks to help him maintain his drumming skills.[5][3]

He died on May 1, 2018, at his home in Mobile, Alabama, at the age of 80[1] from leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. He was survived by his wife Naomi Taplin Starks, a daughter, a son, and two grandchildren.[4]

Recognition edit

In 2013, Starks and Stubblefield received the Yamaha Legacy Award.[22] In 2016 Rolling Stone magazine named Starks and Stubblefield the sixth best drummer of all time.[6] According to National Public Radio, "the grooves the two drummers (Starks and Stubblefield) created have inspired generations of artists – not just in funk, but in hip-hop, where their steady but intricate patterns make natural material for sampling."[7]

Bassist Bootsy Collins called Starks the steady rock that he built his bass grooves on while with James Brown.[3] Trombonist Fred Wesley called Starks his favorite drummer and said "I could just lose myself in that 'stop your heart' groove and just blow free.”[10] According to The Pacemakers drummer Frank "Kash" Waddy, Starks was a disciplined player and his "forte was to play very clean, very straight ahead."[6]

According to drummer-journalist Ahmir Thompson, Starks was Brown's "most effective drummer" and called his eight-on-the-floor style "unique". He credits Starks' drum patterns for the birth of New Jack Swing and Baltimore club/Jersey club styles.[3] Drummer-author Jim Payne wrote: Starks "could put the groove somewhere between 16th notes and 16th-note triplets and turn funk into an infectious, swinging half-time shuffle. His drum tracks, sampled again and again by hip-hoppers and hit-makers, attest to the strength and longevity of his creative talents."[10]

Quotations edit

In a 1995 interview with WGBH, Starks said: "I'm not trying to outplay anybody else. The only thing I want to do is keep that heartbeat going as they call it, (...) the bass player or the guitar player or the horn player could do whatever he wants to do because he knows that that solid foundation is back there behind him."[14][6]

In a 2015 interview with Mobile Bay Magazine, Starks said, "When I'm playing music (...) there ain't nobody in the world higher than I am."[5]

Selected discography edit

Credits adapted in part from AllMusic and Discogs.[23][24]

With The Funkmasters as co-leader

  • Find the Groove (Funkmasters, 2001)
  • Come Get Summa This (Funkmasters, 2006)

With Bobby Bland

With Bobby Byrd

With Lyn Collins

With B.B. King

With The J.B.'s

With Fred Wesley

With Johnny J. Blair

  • Fire (CJAM Productions, 2000)

Instructional videos edit

  • Soul of the Funky Drummers (1999)

Notes edit

  1. ^ Sources vary as to his year of birth. According to his obituary, published by Mobile Register, Starks was born on October 26, 1937; The New York Times gives 1938.

References edit

  1. ^ a b "John Henry Jab'o Starks 1937 – 2018 Obituary". Mobile Register. May 5, 2018. from the original on July 23, 2022. Retrieved July 23, 2022.
  2. ^ Jim Payne (2006). Harry Weinger (ed.). The Great Drummers of R&B Funk & Soul. Mel Bay Publications. pp. 232–234. ISBN 978-0-7866-7303-2. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Jon Blistein (May 2, 2018). "James Brown Drummer John 'Jabo' Starks Dead at 79". Rolling Stone. ISSN 0035-791X. from the original on August 4, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Daniel E. Slotnik (May 1, 2018). "Jabo Starks, Drummer for James Brown, Dies at 79". The New York Times. from the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Breck Pappas (September 9, 2015). "The Amazing Life of Jabo Starks". Mobile Bay magazine. from the original on October 12, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Harrison Smith (May 2, 2018). "Jab'o Starks, drummer who kept the beat for James Brown, dies at 79". washingtonpost.com. from the original on May 8, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  7. ^ a b c d e "The Original Funky Drummers on Life With James Brown". NPR Music. January 5, 2015. from the original on January 31, 2015. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  8. ^ a b c Charles Farley (2011). Soul of the Man – Bobby "Blue" Bland. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 106–107. ISBN 9781604739206. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  9. ^ . schoolinsites.com. Archived from the original on August 22, 2011. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g Jim Payne (October 2018). . Modern Drummer magazine. Archived from the original on October 14, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  11. ^ a b "John 'Jabo' Starks Biography". Drummerworld. from the original on September 11, 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  12. ^ JD Nash (May 3, 2018). "James Brown Drummer John 'Jabo' Starks Dead at 79". americanbluesscene.com. from the original on October 14, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  13. ^ Ben Sisario (March 29, 2011). "Questlove on Clyde Stubblefield". charmicarmicat.blogspot.com. from the original on March 25, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2019. Note: see footnotes.
  14. ^ a b Elizabeth Deane (producer) (September 1995). "Rock and Roll; Make it Funky; Interview with Jabo Starks [Part 1 of 2] – time 10:48". WGBH-TV. from the original on October 14, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  15. ^ Gil Kaufman (May 2, 2018). "James Brown Drummer John 'Jabo' Starks Dies at 79". billboard.com. from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  16. ^ Christian Bryant (May 4, 2018). "Late Drummer John 'Jabo' Starks Laid a Foundation for Popular Music". newsy.com. from the original on May 5, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  17. ^ "The Interview: John 'Jabo' Starks". FOX10 News – WALA channel, youtube.com. November 14, 2013. from the original on October 17, 2018. Retrieved October 17, 2018. After that I went with B.B. King for six years.
  18. ^ "Allmusic: Funkmasters - Find the Groove". Allmusic.com. 2001. from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  19. ^ "Allmusic: Funkmasters - Come Get Summa This". Allmusic.com. May 17, 2006. from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  20. ^ John Starks; Clyde Stubblefield (2004). Soul of the Funky Drummers (DVD). Hal Leonard Corporation. ASIN B0002IQM70.
  21. ^ Gail Mitchell (December 19, 2007). "Bootsy Collins Anchoring James Brown Tribute". Billboard. ISSN 0006-2510. from the original on July 8, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  22. ^ . usa.yamaha.com. December 12, 2013. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  23. ^ "AllMusic: John Starks – credits". AllMusic. from the original on October 16, 2018. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  24. ^ "Discogs: Bobby Bland – The Anthology, album credits". Discogs. from the original on October 16, 2018. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  25. ^ "Funk For Your Ass (A Tribute To The Godfather Of Soul)". Discogs.com. May 28, 2008. from the original on February 10, 2010. Retrieved October 14, 2018.(Fred Wesley featuring Jab'o Starks & Clyde Stubblefield with Bootsy Collins)

External links edit

  • Interview with Jabo Starks, Part 1 and Part 2, at WGBH Open Vault
  • The Interview: John "Jabo" Stark on YouTube by WALA-TV
  • John "Jabo" Starks: "Superbad", Drum transcript at Modern Drummer
  • Jabo Starks at IMDb

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John Henry Jabo Starks ˈ dʒ ae b oʊ October 26 1937 a May 1 2018 1 sometimes spelled Jab o was an American funk and blues drummer best known for playing with James Brown as well as other notable musicians including Bobby Bland and B B King A self taught musician he was known for his effective and clean drum patterns He was one of the originators of funk drumming and is one of the most sampled drummers 2 3 John Jabo StarksBackground informationBirth nameJohn Henry StarksBorn 1937 10 26 October 26 1937Jackson Alabama U S DiedMay 1 2018 2018 05 01 aged 80 Mobile Alabama U S GenresR amp B soul blues funkOccupation s MusicianInstrument s DrumsYears active1955 2018 Contents 1 Life and career 2 Recognition 3 Quotations 4 Selected discography 5 Instructional videos 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksLife and career editStarks was born in Jackson Alabama to Prince Starks and Ruth Watkins 4 One of five children he was nicknamed Jabo as a newborn 5 6 He grew up in Mobile Alabama In the seventh grade he was captivated by drumbeats at a Mardi Gras parade in Mobile and decided to pursue drumming He was self taught and had no formal training He said he learned a lot from listening to music Early on he listened to blues music and was influenced by the gospel music he heard in church 5 7 One of his drum idols was Shep Sheppard of the Bill Doggett band 8 He graduated from Mobile County Training School in 1955 at the time a high school 5 9 He then performed at the Harlem Duke Social Club where he backed notable blues and R amp B musicians including John Lee Hooker Smiley Lewis Clarence Gatemouth Brown Big Mama Thornton and Howlin Wolf 4 5 In 1959 Starks joined Bobby Bland s band and was the youngest member of the band He said band members Pluma Davis and Joe Scott taught him the importance of holding the drum rhythm steady and having other musicians lock in with drums He said musically that was the best band he played with 8 10 He was with the band from 1959 to 1965 and recorded on the band s releases over this period including Turn on Your Love Light Stormy Monday Blues That s the Way Love Is I Pity the Fool and Don t Cry No More 11 10 He also recorded with other artists during this time such as Junior Parker and Joe Hinton on songs Driving Wheel and Funny 8 In 1965 Starks joined James Brown s band From 1965 to 1970 the band had two drummers Starks and Clyde Stubblefield 7 Starks came primarily from a blues background whereas Stubblefield from a soul and jazz background 12 They each performed solo on songs that fit their style The two created the grooves on many of Brown s biggest hits and laid the foundation for modern funk drumming in the process 7 3 In 1970 the band went through a major transformation with Stubblefield leaving the group in late 1970 13 Starks continued performing with the reconfigured band which became known as The J B s Band members included bassist Bootsy Collins and rhythm guitarist Catfish Collins who along with Starks formed the rhythm section The band also included trombonist Fred Wesley 10 14 Starks toured and recorded with Brown until 1976 5 Starks recordings during his eleven year association with Brown include The Payback Sex Machine Soul Power Super Bad Talkin Loud and Sayin Nothing Doing It to Death Papa Don t Take No Mess Licking Stick Licking Stick 10 15 He also backed artists produced or managed by Brown most notably Lyn Collins and Bobby Byrd as well as the independent works released by The J B s 3 Often uncredited Starks and Stubblefield rank as two of the most sampled drummers on contemporary hip hop and R amp B recordings 7 3 10 Starks drum patterns have been sampled by LL Cool J Kendrick Lamar The Roots A Tribe Called Quest Black Eyed Peas Kool Moe Dee Rob Base and DJ E Z Rock Total and others 4 3 16 About the lack of recognition he said the least they could do is say where they got the samples from 5 Starks left Brown s band in mid 1970s and joined blues artist B B King 4 Starks was well versed in blues music in his early career In regard to his transition from uptempo funk to laid back blues he said to me everything stems from playing the blues anyway 5 He toured and recorded with King for six years 4 17 His recordings with King include the albums Lucille Talks Back and King Size 6 Starks and Stubblefield remained friends In 1999 they performed on The J B s album Bring the Funk on Down 6 The duo went on to release original music as the Funkmasters 4 They released the album Find the Groove in 2001 and the album Come Get Summa This in 2006 18 19 They released an instructional video titled Soul of the Funky Drummers 20 In 2007 the duo joined Bootsy Collins for the first tribute concert in memory of James Brown and performed on the soundtrack for the movie Superbad 21 4 In his later years Starks lived in Mobile Alabama 11 From the mid 1990s onward when not touring or recording he performed five nights a week at the Picolo Restaurant and Red Bar in Grayton Beach Florida and on Sundays he played drums at his church in Mobile He performed until March 2018 He said over the years he learned little tricks to help him maintain his drumming skills 5 3 He died on May 1 2018 at his home in Mobile Alabama at the age of 80 1 from leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome He was survived by his wife Naomi Taplin Starks a daughter a son and two grandchildren 4 Recognition editIn 2013 Starks and Stubblefield received the Yamaha Legacy Award 22 In 2016 Rolling Stone magazine named Starks and Stubblefield the sixth best drummer of all time 6 According to National Public Radio the grooves the two drummers Starks and Stubblefield created have inspired generations of artists not just in funk but in hip hop where their steady but intricate patterns make natural material for sampling 7 Bassist Bootsy Collins called Starks the steady rock that he built his bass grooves on while with James Brown 3 Trombonist Fred Wesley called Starks his favorite drummer and said I could just lose myself in that stop your heart groove and just blow free 10 According to The Pacemakers drummer Frank Kash Waddy Starks was a disciplined player and his forte was to play very clean very straight ahead 6 According to drummer journalist Ahmir Thompson Starks was Brown s most effective drummer and called his eight on the floor style unique He credits Starks drum patterns for the birth of New Jack Swing and Baltimore club Jersey club styles 3 Drummer author Jim Payne wrote Starks could put the groove somewhere between 16th notes and 16th note triplets and turn funk into an infectious swinging half time shuffle His drum tracks sampled again and again by hip hoppers and hit makers attest to the strength and longevity of his creative talents 10 Quotations editIn a 1995 interview with WGBH Starks said I m not trying to outplay anybody else The only thing I want to do is keep that heartbeat going as they call it the bass player or the guitar player or the horn player could do whatever he wants to do because he knows that that solid foundation is back there behind him 14 6 In a 2015 interview with Mobile Bay Magazine Starks said When I m playing music there ain t nobody in the world higher than I am 5 Selected discography editCredits adapted in part from AllMusic and Discogs 23 24 See also James Brown Discography With The Funkmasters as co leader Find the Groove Funkmasters 2001 Come Get Summa This Funkmasters 2006 With Bobby Bland Two Steps from the Blues Duke 1961 Here s the Man Duke 1962 Call on Me That s the Way Love Is Duke 1963 Ain t Nothing You Can Do Duke 1964 With Bobby Byrd Live at the Garden King 1967 Live at the Apollo Volume II King 1968 With Lyn Collins Think About It People 1972 With B B King Lucille Talks Back ABC 1975 King Size ABC 1977 With The J B s Food for Thought People 1972 Doing It to Death People 1973 Damn Right I Am Somebody People 1974 Bring the Funk on Down P Vine 1999 Superbad soundtrack Lakeshore 2007 With Fred Wesley Funk for Your Ass Columbia 2008 25 With Johnny J Blair Fire CJAM Productions 2000 Instructional videos editSoul of the Funky Drummers 1999 Notes edit Sources vary as to his year of birth According to his obituary published by Mobile Register Starks was born on October 26 1937 The New York Times gives 1938 References edit a b John Henry Jab o Starks 1937 2018 Obituary Mobile Register May 5 2018 Archived from the original on July 23 2022 Retrieved July 23 2022 Jim Payne 2006 Harry Weinger ed The Great Drummers of R amp B Funk amp Soul Mel Bay Publications pp 232 234 ISBN 978 0 7866 7303 2 Retrieved July 31 2010 a b c d e f g h Jon Blistein May 2 2018 James Brown Drummer John Jabo Starks Dead at 79 Rolling Stone ISSN 0035 791X Archived from the original on August 4 2018 Retrieved October 14 2018 a b c d e f g h Daniel E Slotnik May 1 2018 Jabo Starks Drummer for James Brown Dies at 79 The New York Times Archived from the original on May 2 2018 Retrieved October 14 2018 a b c d e f g h i Breck Pappas September 9 2015 The Amazing Life of Jabo Starks Mobile Bay magazine Archived from the original on October 12 2018 Retrieved October 14 2018 a b c d e f Harrison Smith May 2 2018 Jab o Starks drummer who kept the beat for James Brown dies at 79 washingtonpost com Archived from the original on May 8 2018 Retrieved October 14 2018 a b c d e The Original Funky Drummers on Life With James Brown NPR Music January 5 2015 Archived from the original on January 31 2015 Retrieved October 14 2018 a b c Charles Farley 2011 Soul of the Man Bobby Blue Bland University Press of Mississippi pp 106 107 ISBN 9781604739206 Retrieved October 14 2018 Mobile County Training School schoolinsites com Archived from the original on August 22 2011 Retrieved October 14 2018 a b c d e f g Jim Payne October 2018 In Memoriam John Jabo Starks 1938 2018 Modern Drummer magazine Archived from the original on October 14 2018 Retrieved October 14 2018 a b John Jabo Starks Biography Drummerworld Archived from the original on September 11 2018 Retrieved May 1 2018 JD Nash May 3 2018 James Brown Drummer John Jabo Starks Dead at 79 americanbluesscene com Archived from the original on October 14 2018 Retrieved October 14 2018 Ben Sisario March 29 2011 Questlove on Clyde Stubblefield charmicarmicat blogspot com Archived from the original on March 25 2018 Retrieved March 20 2019 Note see footnotes a b Elizabeth Deane producer September 1995 Rock and Roll Make it Funky Interview with Jabo Starks Part 1 of 2 time 10 48 WGBH TV Archived from the original on October 14 2018 Retrieved October 14 2018 Gil Kaufman May 2 2018 James Brown Drummer John Jabo Starks Dies at 79 billboard com Archived from the original on October 4 2018 Retrieved October 14 2018 Christian Bryant May 4 2018 Late Drummer John Jabo Starks Laid a Foundation for Popular Music newsy com Archived from the original on May 5 2018 Retrieved October 14 2018 The Interview John Jabo Starks FOX10 News WALA channel youtube com November 14 2013 Archived from the original on October 17 2018 Retrieved October 17 2018 After that I went with B B King for six years Allmusic Funkmasters Find the Groove Allmusic com 2001 Archived from the original on December 22 2015 Retrieved October 14 2018 Allmusic Funkmasters Come Get Summa This Allmusic com May 17 2006 Archived from the original on December 22 2015 Retrieved October 14 2018 John Starks Clyde Stubblefield 2004 Soul of the Funky Drummers DVD Hal Leonard Corporation ASIN B0002IQM70 Gail Mitchell December 19 2007 Bootsy Collins Anchoring James Brown Tribute Billboard ISSN 0006 2510 Archived from the original on July 8 2018 Retrieved October 14 2018 Yamaha Honors Funky Drummers Starks And Stubblefield usa yamaha com December 12 2013 Archived from the original on August 8 2014 Retrieved October 14 2018 AllMusic John Starks credits AllMusic Archived from the original on October 16 2018 Retrieved October 15 2018 Discogs Bobby Bland The Anthology album credits Discogs Archived from the original on October 16 2018 Retrieved October 15 2018 Funk For Your Ass A Tribute To The Godfather Of Soul Discogs com May 28 2008 Archived from the original on February 10 2010 Retrieved October 14 2018 Fred Wesley featuring Jab o Starks amp Clyde Stubblefield with Bootsy Collins External links editInterview with Jabo Starks Part 1 and Part 2 at WGBH Open Vault The Interview John Jabo Stark on YouTube by WALA TV John Jabo Starks Superbad Drum transcript at Modern Drummer Jabo Starks at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jabo Starks amp oldid 1185036295, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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