James Marshall (jazz musician)

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James Marshall (* around 1950) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone , flute ) who initially worked in the music scene in St. Louis and later in Tucson .

Live and act

Marshall, who in the late 1960s was one of the few whites to take part in sessions of the Black Artists Group , founded the creative jazz collective Human in the early 1970s in St. Louis with Charles Bobo Shaw and his wife Carol Arts Ensemble , which was then also joined by Luther Thomas . Marshall was involved in the ensemble's early albums. After a stay in Oregon back in St. Louis, the ensemble's musicians (Maurice Malik King, Thurman Thomas, Rick Saffron, Carl Arzinia Richards, Jim Miller, Jay Zelenka, Carol Marshall) recorded the LP Autonomous Oblast in September 1975 (Freedonia). After his divorce, he moved to Tucson in 1980, where he continued to operate.

The last recordings were made in 1985 with the audio cassette Illuminations . In the field of jazz he was involved in seven recording sessions between 1972 and 1985.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin Looker BAG: ›Point from which Creation Begins‹: the Black Artists' Group of St. Louis . 2004, pp. 87f.
  2. ^ Dennis Owsley City of Gabriels: The History of Jazz in St. Louis, 1895-1973 , 2006 p. 178
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 15, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Marshall, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (saxophone, flute)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1950