John Stanley Marshall, better known as John Marshall, born 28 August 1941 in Isleworth

Isleworth

Isleworth is a small town of Saxon origin sited within the London Borough of Hounslow in west London, England. It lies immediately east of the town of Hounslow and west of the River Thames and its tributary the River Crane. Isleworth's original area of settlement, alongside the Thames, is known as...

, Middlesex

Middlesex

Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...

, is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 drummer

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

. He was a founding member of the jazz rock

Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

 band Nucleus

Nucleus (band)

Nucleus were a pioneering jazz-rock band from Britain who continued in different forms from 1969 to 1989. In their first year they won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released the album Elastic Rock, and performed both at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Gate jazz club.They were...

 and has worked with various other jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 and rock bands and musicians, among them J.J. Jackson, Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel

Barney Kessel was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. Generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century, he was noted in particular for his vast knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies...

, Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a Founding Father of British Blues"...

, Graham Collier

Graham Collier

James Graham Collier OBE was an English jazz bassist, bandleader and composer.-Life and career:Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, on leaving school Collier joined the British Army as a musician, spending three years in Hong Kong...

, Michael Gibbs

Michael Gibbs (jazz composer)

Michael Clement Irving Gibbs is a jazz composer, conductor, arranger and producer as well as a trombonist and keyboardist....

, Arthur Brown

Arthur Brown (musician)

Arthur Brown is an English rock and roll musician best known for his flamboyant, theatrical style and significant influence on Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Marilyn Manson, George Clinton, Kiss, King Diamond, and Bruce Dickinson, among others, and for his number one hit in the UK Singles Chart and...

, Keith Tippett

Keith Tippett

Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett, the son of a local police officer, went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead, Bristol. He formed his first jazz band called The KT7 whilst still at school and they performed numbers popular at the time by The Temperance...

, Centipede

Centipede (band)

Centipede were an English jazz/progressive rock/Canterbury sound big band with more than 50 members, organized and led by the British free jazz pianist Keith Tippett...

, Jack Bruce

Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...

, John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin (musician)

John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...

, Soft Machine

Soft Machine

Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre...

, Dick Morrissey

Dick Morrissey

Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute.- Background :...

, Hugh Hopper

Hugh Hopper

Hugh Colin Hopper was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.-Early career:...

, Elton Dean

Elton Dean

Elton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....

, John Surman

John Surman

John Douglas Surman is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music as a basis...

, Charlie Mariano

Charlie Mariano

Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.-Biography:Mariano was the son of Italian immigrants....

, John Abercrombie

John Abercrombie (guitarist)

John Abercrombie is an American jazz guitarist, whose work often explores jazz fusion and post bop. Abercrombie has played with Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker...

, Arild Andersen

Arild Andersen

Arild Andersen is a Norwegian bass player.Born in Lillestrøm, Norway, he started out as a member of the Jan Garbarek Quartet , with Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen...

, and Eberhard Weber

Eberhard Weber

Eberhard Weber is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, Weber is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing...

'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.

with Nucleus

• Elastic Rock
  Elastic Rock
  Elastic Rock is Nucleus' first album. Recorded in January 1970, it was a pioneering work in emerging genre of jazz-rock fusion. Bandleader Ian Carr, later a jazz journalist and published expert on Miles Davis, was probably inspired by Davis' "going electric" in 1969, but the seminal Bitches Brew...
  
   (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
  Six (Soft Machine album)
  Six is a 1973 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...
  
  (1973, CBS)
• Seven
  Seven (Soft Machine album)
  Seven is a 1973 album by the British progressive rock and jazz/fusion band Soft Machine who were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene...
  
  (1973, CBS)
• Bundles
  Bundles (album)
  Bundles is a 1975 album by the British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz/fusion band Soft Machine.On Bundles, only keyboardist and founding member Mike Ratledge is left of the early Soft Machine line-ups...
  
  (1975, Harvest)
• Softs
  Softs
  For softs as commodities, see Commodities.Softs is a 1976 album by the British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz/fusion band Soft Machine who were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene....
  
  (1976, Harvest)
• Triple Echo (1977, Harvest)
• Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris
  Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris
  Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris is a 1978 release by the band Soft Machine. Mostly recorded live, during at 4-night residency at Paris' Théâtre Le Palace in July 1977, much of the album was later modified in the studio, with the track "Soft Space" being a completely studio recorded track released...
  
  (1978, Harvest)
• Land of Cockayne
  Land of Cockayne
  Land of Cockayne is the final album by the band Soft Machine, released in 1981. By this point, the band contained none of its original members. The title refers to the medieval land of plenty....
  
  (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
  Silent Feet
  Silent Feet is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1977 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Emphasizing long tones, contrasting sound with silence.....
  
  (ECM, 1977)
• Pop Jazz International (Amiga, 1979)
• Little Movements
  Little Movements
  Little Movements is an album by German double bassist and composer Eberhard Weber recorded in 1980 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
  
  (ECM, 1980)

As sideman

With Jack Bruce

Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...

• Harmony Row
  Harmony Row
  Harmony Row is Jack Bruce's third album, originally released in July 1971.The album takes its title from a tenement street in Glasgow, near where Bruce grew up. The street, since demolished, was famous as the largest unbroken houserow in Europe, stretching for over a mile...
  
  (Atco, 1971)

With John Surman

John Surman

John Douglas Surman is an English jazz saxophone, bass clarinet and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music as a basis...

• Conflagration (Dawn, 1971)
• Morning Glory (Island, 1973)
• The Brass Project
  The Brass Project
  The Brass Project is an album by English saxophonist John Surman with a brass section conducted by John Warren recorded in 1992 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
  
  (ECM, 1992)
• Stranger than Fiction
  Stranger than Fiction (John Surman album)
  Stranger than Fiction is an album by English saxophonist John Surman featuring John Taylor, Chris Laurence and John Marshall recorded in 1993 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
  
  (ECM, 1993)

With Vassilis Tsabropoulos

Vassilis Tsabropoulos

Vassilis Tsabropoulos is a Greek pianist and composer.-Discography:*The Promise *Melos Vassilis Tsabropoulos (born 1966 in Athens) is a Greek pianist and composer.-Discography:*The Promise (ECM, 2009)*Melos Vassilis Tsabropoulos (born 1966 in Athens) is a Greek pianist and...

• Achirana
  Achirana
  Achirana is an album by Greek composer and pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos with bassist Arild Andersen and drummer John Marshall recorded in 1999 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...
  
  (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)