John Marshall

John Stanley Marshall (28 August 1941 – 16 September 2023) was an English drummer and founding member of the jazz rock band Nucleus. He is most well known as the drummer for Soft Machine and its asscociated acts from 1972 until his retirement from the group in 2022.

Marshall was born in Isleworth, Middlesex on 28 August 1941, and worked with various jazz and rock bands and musicians, among them J. J. Jackson, Allan Holdsworth, 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.

From 1999, he worked with former Soft Machine co-musicians in several Soft Machine-related projects like SoftWare, SoftWorks and Soft Machine Legacy. He toured as a member of the band, which operated under the name Soft Machine again, from 2015 to 2023.

Marshall died on 16 September 2023, at the age of 82.

• Elastic Rock (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)

Studio

• Fifth (1972, CBS)
• Six (1973, CBS)
• Seven (1973, CBS)
• Bundles (1975, Harvest)
• Softs (1976, Harvest)
• Land of Cockayne (1981, EMI)
• Abracadabra (as Soft Works) (2003, Tone Center, MoonJune Records)
• Soft Machine Legacy (as Soft Machine Legacy) (2006, Moonjune Records)
• Steam (as Soft Machine Legacy) (2007, Moonjune Records)
• Burden of Proof (as Soft Machine Legacy) (2013, Moonjune Records)
• Hidden Details (2018, Moonjune Records)
• Other Doors (2023, Moonjune Records)

Live

• NDR Jazz Workshop - Live (1973, Cuneiform)
• Switzerland Live (recorded 1974, released 2015, Cuneiform)
• Floating World Live (recorded 1975, released 2006, Moonjune Records)
• British Tour '75 (recorded 1975, released 2005, Major League Productions)
• Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (1978, Harvest)
• BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert [rec.1972] (1994, Windsong)
• Live in France [recorded 1972] (1994, One Way)
• Live in Zaandam (as Soft Machine Legacy) (2005, Moonjune Records)
• Live At The New Morning (as Soft Machine Legacy) (2006, in-akustik)
• Live Adventures (as Soft Machine Legacy) (2010, Moonjune Records)
• Live at the Baked Potato (2019, Moonjune Records)
• Abracadabra In Osaka (as Soft Works) (2020, Moonjune Records)

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

• Septober Energy (Neon/RCA, 1971)

With Jack Bruce

• Songs for a Tailor (Polydor Records, 1969)
• Harmony Row (Atco, 1971)

With John Surman

• Conflagration (Dawn, 1971)
• Morning Glory (Island, 1973)
• The Brass Project (ECM, 1992)
• Stranger than Fiction (ECM, 1993)

With Vassilis Tsabropoulos

• Achirana (ECM, 1999)

With others