| Intro | American musician, conductor, composer |
| Was |
Guitarist Jazz musician Musician Composer Conductor Jazz guitarist |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Music |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 23 November 1921, El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas, U.S.A. |
| Death |
20 September 1973, Newport Beach, Orange County, California, U.S.A. (aged 51 years) |
Jack Wilton Marshall (November 23, 1921 – September 20, 1973) was an American guitarist, conductor, and composer. He is the father of producer-director Frank Marshall and composer Phil Marshall.
Biography
Born in El Dorado, Kansas, Marshall was one of Capitol Records’ top producers in the late 1950s and 1960s. He also released a number of albums under his own name that featured his own finger-style jazz guitar playing. He was a close friend of Howard Roberts and Jack Sheldon, and produced several of their best albums on Capitol. He wrote his own arrangements, many of which had a big-band, jazzy sound to them. He was officially credited with the arrangement for Peggy Lee’s “Fever”, although it is now believed that Lee herself was primarily responsible for that arrangement, while it was Marshall who arranged the other tunes recorded on the session.
Marshall is perhaps best known for composing 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). 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 western television series starring Henry Fonda, The Investigators and The Debbie Reynolds Show. His interment was at Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery.
Discography
- 1959 18th Century Jazz (Capitol)
- 1959 Soundsville (Capitol)
- 1960 The Marshall Swings (Capitol)
- 1962 Sounds Unheard Of! (Contemporary) with Shelly Manne
- 1963 My Son the Surf Nut (Capitol)
- 1963 Tuff Jack (Capitol)
- 1966 Sounds! (Capitol) with Shelly Manne
With Benny Carter
- Cosmopolite (Norgran, 1954)
With Barney Kessel
- Some Like It Hot (Contemporary, 1959)
With Shorty Rogers and André Previn
- Collaboration (RCA Victor, 1954)