Tony Marsh (musician)

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Tony Marsh (center) with Harry Beckett (left) and Nick Stephens (right) in 2007; Photo: Andy Newcombe

Tony Marsh (actually: Anthony Vincent Stewart Marsh , * 19th August 1939 in Lancaster , England ; † 9. April 2012 ) was a British jazz - drummer .

Live and act

Marsh worked in the English jazz scene from the 1970s and later also in the improvisation scene. He began his career in Don Weller's jazz rock band Major Surgery , of which he was a member until 1979, before playing with musicians such as Evan Parker , John Surman , Howard Riley , Paul Dunmall , Phil Wachsmann and Elton Dean . Marsh became a member of the Mike Westbrook Orchestra in 1982 and also appeared on their albums On Duke's Birthday (1984) and London Bridge is Broken Down (1987). In the 1980s he also worked with Harry Beckett , later with George Haslam and the London Improvisers Orchestra . In 2010 he presented the duo album Stops (Psi) with Veryan Weston ; The album Quartet Improvisations followed in 2011 . In the spring of 2012 he played in a trio with Shabaka Hutchings and Guillaume Viltard , as well as Evan Parker and John Edwards as well as this and Roscoe Mitchell . He died of complications from cancer.

Tony Marsh and John Russell performing at the Vortex Jazz Club in London in 2010

Discographic notes

  • Howard Riley: Feathers with Jaki (Slam, 1981-91)
  • Harry Beckett: Images of Clarity (Evidence, 1992)
  • George Haslam: Level Two (Slam, 1992)
  • Simon Picard / Paul Rogers / Tony Marsh: News from the North ( Intakt Records , 1993)
  • Howard Riley: Wishing on the Moon (Future, 1995)
  • Calling Signals: Live in the UK ( FMR Records , 2005), with Eivin One Pedersen , Frode Gjerstad , Nick Stephens
  • Jon Corbett / Nick Stephens / Tony Marsh: The Play's the Thing (2006)
  • Mike Osborne: Force of Nature (Reel, 2008)
  • Quartet Improvisations (Psi, 2011), with Hannah Marshall, Neil Metcalfe, Alison Blunt

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tony Marsh's biography in the Guardian
  2. ↑ a b Obituary in Jazz Wise (English)
personal data
SURNAME Marsh, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marsh, Anthony Vincent Stewart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Lancaster , England
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2012