John Marshall (drummer)
John Stanley Marshall is an English drummer and founding member of the jazz rock band Nucleus. From 1972 to 1978, he was the drummer for Soft Machine, replacing Phil Howard when he joined.
Marshall was born in Isleworth, Middlesex, and has worked with various 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, 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 SoftWare, SoftWorks and Soft Machine Legacy. He is currently touring as a member of the band, which operates under the name Soft Machine again since 2015.Discography
with Nucleus
- Elastic Rock
- We'll Talk About It Later
- Solar Plexus
- Live at Theaterhaus
- Ian Carr: Old Heartland
with Soft Machine
;Studio
- Fifth
- Six
- Seven
- Bundles
- Softs
- Land of Cockayne
- Abracadabra
- Soft Machine Legacy
- Steam
- Burden of Proof
- Hidden Details
;Live
- NDR Jazz Workshop - Live
- Switzerland Live )
- Floating World Live
- British Tour '75
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- BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
- Live in France
- Live in Zaandam
- Live At The New Morning
- Live Adventures
with Eberhard Weber's Colours
- Silent Feet
- Pop Jazz International
- Little Movements
As sideman
With Jack Bruce
With John Surman
- Conflagration
- Morning Glory
- The Brass Project
- Stranger than Fiction
With Vassilis Tsabropoulos
With others
- Graham Collier/Deep Dark Blue Centre
- Michael Garrick/Jazz Praises at St Paul's
- Barney Kessel/Blue Soul
- Barney Kessel/Swinging Easy
- Graham Collier/Down Another Road
- Neil Ardley/Greek Variations
- Jack Bruce/Songs for a Tailor
- Michael Gibbs/Michael Gibbs
- Mike Westbrook/Marching Song Vol. I & II
- Georgie Fame/Seventh Son
- Arthur Brown/Crazy World of Arthur Brown
- Indo-Jazz Fusions/Etudes
- Lloyd Webber/Rice/Jesus Christ Superstar
- Bill Fay/Bill Fay
- Mike d'Abo/Michael D'Abo
- Chris Spedding/Songs Without Words
- Top Topham/Ascension Heights
- Michael Gibbs/Tanglewood '63
- Chitinous Ensemble/Chitinous Ensemble
- Linda Hoyle/Pieces of Me
- Spontaneous Music Orchestra/Live: Big Band/Quartet
- Mike Westbrook/Metropolis
- Centipede/Septober Energy
- Michael Gibbs/Just Ahead
- Alexis Korner/Bootleg Him
- Volker Kriegel/Inside:The Missing Link
- Hugh Hopper/1984
- John Williams/Height Below
- Volker Kriegel/Lift
- Pork Pie /The Door is Open
- Charlie Mariano/HelenTwelveTrees
- Elton Dean & Alan Skidmore/El Skid
- Jasper van't Hof & George Gruntz/Fairy Tales
- Gil Evans/The British Orchestra
- U. Beckerhoff, J. van't Hof, J. Marshall/Camporondo
- U. Beckerhoff, J. Abercrombie, A. Andersen, J. Marshall/Secret Obsession
- Wolfgang Mirbach/Links
- Towering Inferno/Kaddish
- Michael Gibbs/By The Way
- Theo Travis/View From The Edge
- Jandl/Glawischnig/Laut & Luise
- Graham Collier/Charles River Fragments
- Mirbach/Links/New Reasons to Use Old Words
- Jack Bruce & Friends/Live in Concert
- Christoph Oeding/Taking a Chance
- Marshall Travis Wood/Bodywork
- Roy Powell/North by Northwest
