Ten years ago, while taking a walk near the West Oakland house they'd just purchased, Peter Williams and his wife encountered a handsome middle-aged man working in his yard two doors down. The man was ...

Joseph Zigaboo" Modeliste: Art failed to mention that we played in the French Quarters, six nights a week, for about two years. Any band that does that, they get tight. They know how to breathe with ...

As a founding member of The Meters and a pioneer of the syncopated drumming style, Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste has earned a well-deserved reputation as a veritable forefather of funk. Few drummers can ...

This week marks the 75th birthday of one of the founding fathers of funk, Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste, the co-founder and original drummer of The Meters. Born Dec. 28, 1948, in New Orleans, Modeliste ...

Starting in the late 1960s, Art Neville, George Porter Jr., Leo Nocentelli, Joseph Modeliste, and (a little later) Cyril Neville pioneered a complicated clockwork sound that always seemed to be ...