John Stanley Marshall

John Stanley Marshall, better known as John Marshall, born 28 August 1941 in Isleworth, Middlesex, is an English drummer. He was a founding member of the jazz rock band Nucleus and has worked with various other jazz and rock bands and musicians, among them J.J. Jackson, Barney Kessel, Alexis Korner, Graham Collier, Michael Gibbs, Arthur Brown, Keith Tippett, Centipede, Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin, Soft Machine, Dick Morrissey, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, John Surman, Charlie Mariano, John Abercrombie, Arild Andersen, and Eberhard Weber's Colours.

Since 1999, he has worked with former Soft Machine co-musicians in several Soft Machine related projects like SoftWhere, SoftWorks and Soft Machine Legacy.

Discography

with Nucleus

• Elastic Rock (1970, Vertigo)
• We'll Talk About It Later (1971, Vertigo)
• Solar Plexus (1971, Vertigo)
• Live at Theaterhaus (1985, Mood)
• Ian Carr: Old Heartland (1988, EMI)

with Soft Machine

• Fifth (1972, CBS)
• Six (1973, CBS)
• Seven (1973, CBS)
• Bundles (1975, Harvest)
• Softs (1976, Harvest)
• Triple Echo (1977, Harvest)
• Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (1978, Harvest)
• Land of Cockayne (1981, EMI)
• BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert [rec.1972] (1994, Windsong)
• Live in France [rec.1972] (1994, One Way)

with Eberhard Weber's Colours

• Silent Feet (ECM, 1977)
• Pop Jazz International (Amiga, 1979)
• Little Movements (ECM, 1980)

As sideman

With Jack Bruce

• Harmony Row (Atco, 1971)

With John Surman

• Conflagration (Dawn, 1971)
• Morning Glory (Island, 1973)
• The Brass Project (ECM, 1992)
• Stranger than Fiction (ECM, 1993)

With Vassilis Tsabropoulos

• Achirana (ECM, 1999)

• Graham Collier / Deep Dark Blue Centre (1967, Deram)
• Michael Garrick / Jazz Praises at St Pauls (1968, Airborne)
• Barney Kessel / Blue Soul (1968, Black Lion)
• Barney Kessel / Swinging Easy (1968, Black Lion)
• Graham Collier / Down Another Road (1969, Fontana)
• Neil Ardley / Greek Variations (1969, Columbia)
• Jack Bruce / Songs for a Tailor (1969, Polydor)
• Michael Gibbs / Michael Gibbs (1969, Deram)
• Mike Westbrook / Marching Song Vol. I&II (1969, Deram)
• Georgie Fame / Seventh Son (1969, CBS)
• Arthur Brown / Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1969, Track)
• Indo-Jazz Fusions / Etudes (1969, Sonet)
• Lloyd Webber/Rice / Jesus Christ Superstar (1970, Decca)
• Bill Fay / Bill Fay (1970, Deram)
• Michael D'Abo / Michael D'Abo (1970, Uni)
• Chris Spedding / Songs Without Words (1970, Harvest)
• Top Topham / Ascension Heights (1970, Blue Horizon)
• Michael Gibbs / Tanglewood '63 (1970, Deram)
• Chitinous Ensemble / Chitinous Ensemble (1971, Deram)
• Linda Hoyle / Pieces of Me (1971, Vertigo)
• Spontaneous Music Orchestra / Live: Big Band/Quartet (1971, Vinyl)
• Mike Westbrook / Metropolis (1971, RCA)
• Centipede / Septober Energy (1971, Neo)
• Michael Gibbs / Just Ahead (1972, Polydor)
• Alexis Korner / Bootleg Him (1972, Rak Srak)
• Volker Kriegel / Inside:The Missing Link (1972, MPS)
• Hugh Hopper / 1984 (1973, CBS)
• John Williams / Height Below (1973, Hi Fly)
• Volker Kriegel / Lift (1973, MPS)
• Pork Pie (Van't Hof. Mariano,Catherine, Marshall) / The Door is Open (1975, MPS)
• Charlie Mariano / HelenTwelveTrees (1976, MPS)
• Elton Dean & Alan Skidmore / El Skid (1977, Vinyl)
• Jasper van't Hof & George Gruntz / Fairy Tales (1978, MPS)
• Gil Evans / The British Orchestra (1983, Mole)
• U.Beckerhoff, J.van't Hof, J.Marshall / Camporondo (1986, Nabel)
• U.Beckerhoff, J.Abercrombie, A.Andersen, J.Marshall / Secret Obsession (1991, Nabel)
• Wolfgang Mirbach / Links (1992, Schlozzton)
• Towering Inferno / Kaddish (1993, Tl Records)
• Michael Gibbs / By The Way (1994, Ah Um)
• Theo Travis / View From The Edge (1994, 33 Records)
• Jandl/Glawischnig / Laut & Luise (1995, Hat Hut/Du)
• Graham Collier / Charles River Fragments (1995, Boathouse)
• Mirbach/Links / New Reasons To Use Old Words (1995, Schlozzton)
• Jack Bruce & Friends / Live in Concert [rec.1971] (1995, Windsong)
• Christoph Oeding / Taking a Chance (1997, Mons)
• Marshall Travis Wood / Bodywork (1998, 33 Records)
• Roy Powell / North by Northwest (1998, released 2001, Nagel-Heyer)
• SoftWorks / Abracadabra (2003, Universal Japan)
• Soft Machine Legacy / Live In Zaandam (2005, MoonJune)
• Soft Machine Legacy / New Morning - The Paris Concert (DVD, 2006, rec. 12/2005)
• Soft Machine Legacy / Soft Machine Legacy (2006, MoonJune)

References

• An interview with John Marshall at www.drummerworld.com
• John Marshall at Calyx - the Canterbury website

This article uses material from the article John Stanley Marshall from the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and it is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.