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

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, Marshall was one of

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' 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

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that featured his fingerstyle jazz guitar playing. He was a friend of

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and

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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

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's "

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", with

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on bass, Shelly Manne on drums, and Howard Roberts adding the iconic finger snaps. Marshall composed the theme and incidental music for the 1960s TV series ''

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'' and the 1966 tie-in film ''

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'' (the theme music was nominated for a

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in 1965). He also composed music for the movies '' The Missouri Traveler'' (1958), '' Thunder Road'' (1958), ''

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'' (1959) and '' Kona Coast'' (1968), as well as ''

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'', a 1959–1961 western television series starring

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, and the television series '' The Investigators'' (1961), ''

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'' (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 (

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, 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

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'' (Capitol, 1959) *

'' I Like Men!'' (Capitol, 1959) *

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'' (Capitol, 1959) *

'' Latin ala Lee'' (Capitol, 1960) *

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'' (Capitol, 1960) *

''Out!'' (Capitol, 1962) *

''H.R. is A Dirty Guitar Player'' (Capitol, 1963) *

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May I Come In? ''May I Come In?'' is a 1964 studio album by Blossom Dearie, arranged by Jack Marshall. Track listing # "Something Happens to Me" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 2:02 # "I'm in Love Again" (Cy Coleman, Peggy Lee, Bill Schluger) – 2:45 # " ...

'' (Capitol, 1964) *

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''Softly'' (Capitol, 1965) *

''Somethings Cookin (Capitol, 1965) *

''Guilty!!'' (Capitol, 1967)

As sideman (guitar)

* MGM Studio Orchestra, ''An American in Paris'', '' MGM Jubilee Overture'', ''High Society'', ''Raintree County'' (

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, 1951–1957) *

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, ''The Urbane Mr. Carter'' ( Norgran, 1954) *

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, ''Soft Lights Sweet Trumpet'' (Columbia, 1954) *

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, ''Modern Brass'' (

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, 1955) *

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, ''Dom Frontiere Sextet'' (

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, 1955) *

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, Andre Previn, ''

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'' (RCA Victor, 1955) *

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, ''This Is Teagarden!'' (Capitol, 1956) * Dominic Frontiere, ''Fabulous'' (Liberty, 1956) *

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, ''The Call of the Wildest'' (Capitol, 1957) * The Four Freshmen, ''4 Freshmen and 5 Trumpets'' (Capitol, 1957) *

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, ''Rusty Bryant Plays Jazz'' ( Dot, 1958) *

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, ''Sounds of the Great Bands'' (Capitol, 1958) *

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, ''

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'' (Contemporary, 1959) * Verlye Mills,

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, ''Harp with a Beat'' (HiFi, 1959) * Nancy Wilson, '' Something Wonderful'' (Capitol, 1960) * Glen Gray, ''Please Mr. Gray'' (Capitol, 1961) * Marian Montgomery, ''Let There Be Love, Let There Be Swing, Let There Be'' (Capitol, 1961) * Jack Sheldon, ''Out!'' (Capitol, 1962) * Jonah Jones, Glen Gray, ''Jonah Jones Quartet/Glen Gray Casa Loma Orchestra'' (Capitol, 1962) *

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, ''High Flying Bird'' ( Elektra, 1963) *

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, '' Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe'' (Capitol, 1963) *

Laurindo Almeida Laurindo José de Araújo Almeida Nóbrega Neto (2 September 1917 – 26 July 1995) was a Brazilian guitarist and composer in classical, jazz, and Latin music. He was one of the pioneers in the creation of bossa nova. Almeida was the firs ...

, ''Girl from Ipanema'' (Capitol, 1964) * Howard Roberts, ''Guilty!!'' (Capitol, 1967) *

Chet Baker Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool". Baker earned much attention and ...

, ''In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album'' (Jazz Detective, 2024)

Bibliography

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Jack 1921 births 1973 deaths 20th-century American conductors (music) 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American male musicians 20th-century American jazz composers American jazz guitarists American male conductors (music) American male guitarists American male jazz composers American music arrangers Capitol Records artists Guitarists from Kansas People from El Dorado, Kansas Record producers from Kansas