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Bobby Stark was born on January 6, 1906 in New York City and started playing music at age 15. He played piano, clarinet, saxophone, and alto horn before deciding on trumpet. In the mid-1920s he played with June Clark, Edgar Dowell, Leon Abbey, Duncan Mayers, Bobbie Brown, Bobby Lee, Billy Butler, Charles Turner, McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, and Chick Webb, the last in 1926-27.

From 1927 to 1933, he played in the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra as a featured soloist. He returned to duty under Chick Webb behind Taft Jordan from 1934 to 1939. After Webb’s death, he remained in the orchestra, now under the direction of Ella Fitzgerald.

In 1940, he left the group to freelance, however, from 1942 to 1943 he served in the Army. Discharged in 1944 he then played with Garvin Bushell and Benny Morton shortly before his death.

Trumpeter Bobby Stark, who never led a recording session, transitioned on December 29, 1945 in New York City at the age of 39.

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