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Page o’ coordination: Jabo shuffle

  • May 3, 2018
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If you watched that video of Jabo Starks playing with John Scofield et al, you’ll notice that he does some hip stuff on the bell of the cymbal behind the trombone during the bridge between […]

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The 1

  • May 2, 2018
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And some more listening for the passing of Jabo Starks:

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Groove o’ the day: Jabo Starks — The Payback

  • May 23, 2015
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I don’t know karate, but I know karazy. Here’s Jabo Starks playing James Brown’s classic, The Payback, which, if you don’t already have the record, you may know from Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels, […]

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Groove o’ the day: two by Jabo Starks

  • August 9, 2014
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Here are two grooves by Jabo Starks, played on James Brown’s original soundtrack for the movie Black Caesar. As you already know very well, Starks, along with Clyde Stubblefield, is the drummer most responsible for […]

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