Jimmy Carl Black

Born: 1st February 1938, El Paso, Texas, USA.
Died: 1st November 2008, Traunstein, .

American drummer and vocalist. Best known for his work with Don Van Vliet as "Indian Ink" during their musical association. Black co-founded several groups and featured on many recordings after departing Zappa's band - with whom he made the first 8 albums. However, JCB appeared on some Zappa works thereafter, such as the vocalist on "Harder Than Your Husband" - a number on which he can also be seen performing with FZ (in Albuquerque) on friend John Cline's vid-clip on YouTube (To which FZ agreed).

JCB met his wife Moni (Monika Black) at a gig (whilst drumming with the Farrell/Black Blues Band) in Traunstein, when he was 58. He spoke no German and she spoke no English, although the fact she had been a devoted Mothers fan for 25 years obviously helped communications and they married 11 months later. Soulmates until he ed away, Moni regularly accompanied him to Zappanale events. Black had almost completed a book of his life story when he died and it was finally published in the Fall of 2013, entitled "For Mother's Sake - The Memoirs And Recollections Of Jimmy Carl Black 1938-2008".

Black was first a member of The Soul Giants with Jon Larsen.