Jack Marshall (composer)


Jack Wilton Marshall 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 El Dorado, Kansas, Marshall was one of Capitol Records' 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 Shelly Manne that featured his fingerstyle jazz guitar playing. He was a friend of Howard Roberts and Jack Sheldon 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 Peggy Lee's "Fever", with Joe Mondragon 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 The Munsters and the 1966 tie-in film Munster, Go Home!. He also composed music for the movies The Missouri Traveler, Thunder Road, The Giant Gila Monster and Kona Coast, as well as The Deputy, a 1959–1961 western television series starring Henry Fonda, and the television series The Investigators, Don't Call Me Charlie!, and The Debbie Reynolds Show.

Discography

Albums

18th Century Jazz Soundsville The Marshall Swings!!! Sounds Unheard Of! with Shelly Manne My Son the Surf Nut Tuff Jack Happy, Youthful Sounds of The Guitar Ramblers Sounds! with Shelly Manne Quiet Nights & Brazilian Nights Freaky Friday: The Jazz Opera
  • ''Thunder Road: The Film Music of Jack Marshall''

As arranger, conductor

As sideman (guitar)