John Stanley Marshall, better known as John Marshall, born 28 August, 1941, is a british 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 Alexis Korner, Keith Tippett, Centipede, Jack Bruce, Soft Machine, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, John Surman, Arild Andersen, and Eberhard Weber's Colours. A drummer is a musician who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ... Nucleus were a pioneering British jazz-rock band that continued in different incarnations from 1969-85. ... Alexis Korner (April 19, 1928 - January 1, 1984), was an English blues musician. ... Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer. ... Centipede was a jazz/progressive rock/Canterbury sound big band with more than 50 members, organized and led by the british free jazz pianist Keith Tippett, that brought together much of a generation of young British jazz and rock musicians, e. ... Jack Bruce (born May 14, 1943) is a British musician; a multi-instumentalist, composer, singer and, most importantly, a very influential electric bassist. ... The Soft Machine were a pioneering British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz band from Canterbury, Kent, England, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. ... Hugh Hopper (born 1945, Canterbury, England) is a bass guitarist and composer. ... Elton Dean (born October 28, 1945, Nottingham, England; died February 7, 2006) was a jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello (a variant of the soprano saxophone) and occasionally piano. ... John Douglas Surman (born on 30 August 1944 in Tavistock, England), is a jazz saxophone, clarinet and synthesizer player. ... Eberhard Weber (born 1940 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a bassist. ...

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

Discography

with Nucleus

• Elastic Rock (1970, Vertigo)
• We'll Talk About It Later (1970, 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 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)

Six is a 1973 jazzy instrumental album, originally released as a double LP by the British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz/fusion band Soft Machine who were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene. ... Bundles is a 1975 album by the British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz/fusion band Soft Machine who were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene. ...

with Eberhard Weber's Colours

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

Various

• 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)
• Jack Bruce / Harmony Row (1971, Polydor)
• Chitinous Ensemble / Chitinous Ensemble (1971, Deram)
• Linda Hoyle / Pieces of Me (1971, Vertigo)
• Spontaneous Music Orchestra / Live: Big Band/Quartet (1971, Vinyl)
• John Surman / Conflagration (1971, Dawn)
• 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 Surman / Morning Glory (1973, Island)
• 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)
• John Surman Brass Project / Brass Project (1993, ECM)
• Towering Inferno / Kaddish (1993, Tl Records)
• Michael Gibbs / By TheWay (1994, Ah Um)
• Theo Travis / View From The Edge (1994, 33 Records)
• John Surman Quartet / Stranger Than Fiction (1994, ECM)
• 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)

External Links

• John Marshall at Calyx - the Canterbury website