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Jack Marshall (composer)

{{Short description|American jazz guitarist and composer (1921–73)}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Jack Marshall

| image = Jack Marshall (Composer).jpg

| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist

| birth_name = Jack Wilton Marshall

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|11|23}}

| birth_place = El Dorado, Kansas, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|9|20|1921|11|23}}

| death_place = Newport Beach, California, U.S.

| genre = Jazz

| occupation = Musician, composer, record producer

| instrument = Guitar

| years_active =

| label = Capitol

}}

Jack Wilton Marshall (November 23, 1921 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, and record producer. He was married to Eva Katherine Pellegrini, and the father to four children: three sons, producer/director Frank Marshall, composer/arranger Phil Marshall, bassist Matt Marshall, and a daughter, Sally Marshall. Jack is also the cousin of classical guitarist Christopher Parkening.

Biography

Born in El Dorado, Kansas, Marshall was one of Capitol Records' top producers in the late 1950s and 1960s. He had a varied career as a jazz, rock and classical guitarist and also as a composer, arranger and record producer. He released two solo albums with drummer Shelly Manne that featured his fingerstyle jazz guitar playing. He was a friend of Howard Roberts{{Cite web |title=Howard Roberts lectures at the University of Connecticut {{!}} UConn Archives & Special Collections ArchivesSpace |url=https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/2901 |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu}} and Jack Sheldon and produced several of their albums for Capitol. He wrote his own arrangements, many with a big-band sound to them. He was credited with the arrangement for Peggy Lee's "Fever", with Joe Mondragon on bass, Shelly Manne on drums, and Howard Roberts adding the iconic finger snaps.{{Cite web |title=The Incomparable Miss Peggy Lee |url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/09/30/incomparable-miss-peggy-lee |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=The New York Public Library |language=en}}

Marshall composed the theme and incidental music for the 1960s TV series The Munsters and the 1966 tie-in film Munster, Go Home! (the theme music was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1965).{{cite web |url=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1965-217.html |title=Best Instrumental Composition (Other Than Jazz) |work=Grammy Awards 1965 |publisher=Awards & Shows |accessdate=27 January 2016}} He also composed music for the movies The Missouri Traveler (1958), Thunder Road (1958), The Giant Gila Monster (1959) and Kona Coast (1968), as well as The Deputy, a 1959–1961 western television series starring Henry Fonda, and the television series The Investigators (1961), Don't Call Me Charlie! (1962–1963), and The Debbie Reynolds Show (1969–1970).

Discography

=Albums=

  • 18th Century Jazz (Capitol, 1959)
  • Soundsville (Capitol, 1959)
  • The Marshall Swings!!! (Capitol, 1960)
  • Sounds Unheard Of! with Shelly Manne (Contemporary, 1962)
  • My Son the Surf Nut (Capitol, 1963)
  • Tuff Jack (Capitol, 1963)
  • Happy, Youthful Sounds of The Guitar Ramblers (Columbia, 1963)
  • Sounds! with Shelly Manne (Capitol, 1966)
  • Quiet Nights & Brazilian Nights (Capitol, 1966)
  • Freaky Friday: The Jazz Opera (Butterfly, 2006)
  • Thunder Road: The Film Music of Jack Marshall (La La Land, 2017)

=As arranger, conductor=

=As sideman (guitar)=

Bibliography

  • {{cite book |title=West Coast Guitar: Eight Original Solos for Guitar |first1=Jack |last1=Marshall |first2=Laurindo |last2=Almeida |author-link2=Laurindo Almeida |first3=Howard |last3=Heitmeyer |first4=Al |last4=Hendrickson |author-link4=Al Hendrickson |first5=Barney |last5=Kessel |author-link5=Barney Kessel |first6=Bill |last6=Pitman |author-link6=Bill Pitman |first7=Bob |last7=Bain |first8=Howard |last8=Roberts |author-link8=Howard Roberts |year=1961 |publisher=Leeds Music Corporation |location=New York |asin=B0080YPG16}}
  • {{cite book |title=Authentic Brazilian Bossa Nova Guitar Arrangements |first=Jack |last=Marshall |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |year=1985 |isbn=978-0793505142}}

References

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External links

  • {{AllMusic |class=artist |id=jack-marshall-mn0000118692 |label=Jack Marshall}}
  • {{IMDb name|0550925|Jack Marshall}}

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Category:1921 births

Category:1973 deaths

Category:20th-century American conductors (music)

Category:20th-century American guitarists

Category:20th-century American male musicians

Category:20th-century American jazz composers

Category:American jazz guitarists

Category:American male conductors (music)

Category:American male guitarists

Category:American male jazz composers

Category:American music arrangers

Category:Capitol Records artists

Category:Guitarists from Kansas

Category:People from El Dorado, Kansas

Category:Record producers from Kansas