Mike Marshall
Musician
LOCAL MUSIC SPOTLIGHT: Ann Arbor's Jeremy Kittel to celebrate new album at The Ark...on his fourth album, "Chasing Sparks," including bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolin masters Chris Thile (of Nickel Creek fame) and Mike Marshall (a former member of the David Grisman Quintet). The 25-year old Kittel is no slouch... In this article: Ann Arbor, Mike Marshall, David Grisman Quintet, Chris Thile, Turtle Island String Quartet, New York, and Paranoid Android |
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all about jazz | October 31, 2009
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: The Brazilian Jazz Collective Brings a Youthful Approach to an Honored Tradition
Besides mandolin, Eva Scow is equally as competent on violin and has performed and/or recorded with David Grisman, Mike Marshall, Anthony Wilson, Mark Summer (Turtle Island String Quartet) and was invited to participate in a...
In this article: Jovino Santos Neto, California, San Diego, Fresno, and San Diego Music Awards
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Wikipedia | October 25, 2009
Mike Marshall (musician)
...bluegrass group Psychograss with guitarist David Grier, banjo player Tony Trischka and bassist Todd Phillips. From 1984 to 1990 Mike Marshall was part of the group Montreux , named for the Montreux Jazz Festival where they played a concert...
In this article: Windham Hill Records, Darol Anger, Edgar Meyer, Montreux, Bluegrass music, Jovino Santos Neto, Compass, Amazon.com, and Joshua Bell
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Stuff | October 08, 2009
Review: Kaspersky Internet Security 2010
By MIKE MARSHALL - The Dominion Post The new 3D - just a fad? Amazon.com stiffs NZ in Kindle launch Review: Google Wave Microsoft's new Windows Mobile iPhone gets augmented reality Bye-bye, beige boxes PlayStation-powered TV records eight...
In this article: Windows Mobile, The Dominion Post, Amazon.com, Iphone, PlayStation, and Microsoft
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PopMatters | September 29, 2009
Väsen: Väsen Street (Review)
...trio's contribution to Sweden's 2007 celebration of Linnaeus' birth-anniversary. Then there was an album in collaboration with Mike Marshall and Darol Anger, but I missed it, for no particular reason. Just did. It was probably good. Most Vasen...
In this article: Secret ingredient, Vasen, Natural law, and Darol Anger
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PR Newswire: All Releases | September 23, 2009
Joshua Bell Makes Music AT HOME WITH FRIENDS
...his Indiana University school-mate Edgar Meyer on the double-bass, along with buddies Sam Bush on mandolin, and guitarist Mike Marshall in "Maybe So." The concept of Bluegrass/Classical fusion is taken to yet another level on "Look Away," a...
In this article: Joshua Bell, Regina Spektor, Grammy Award, Sting, Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Botti, Josh Groban, Marvin Hamlisch, Anoushka Shankar, and Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Honolulu Star Bulletin | September 18, 2009
Bassist explores music's depths
...with chamber, bluegrass and jazz groups, and has jammed with musicians as wide-ranging as Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, James Taylor, Mike Marshall, Mark O'Connor and country chanteuses Alison Krauss and Mary Chapin Carpenter. "The bass has a...
In this article: Edgar Meyer, Honolulu Symphony, Bela Fleck, Godzilla, Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, Alison Krauss, and Mark O'Connor
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The Seattle Times | July 16, 2009
Vancouver folk festival covers all the bases
...HAPA, '90s hip-hop stars Arrested Development, and concert headliner Mavis Staples, all at Jericho Beach Park today-Sunday. Mike Marshall, right; Darol Anger, third from right; and the members of the trio Vasen. Gambian string wizard...
In this article: Vasen, Vancouver, Mavis Staples, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Darol Anger, and Seattle
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San Jose Mercury News | June 03, 2009
Something new for New Music Works' garden party.
...of its 30th season on Sunday with its annual Avant Garden Party in Soquel. Among the featured performers are mandolin master Mike Marshall and his Choro Ensemble; the Singing Wood Marimba Ensemble, which specializes in the music of...
In this article: David Grisman Quintet, Terry Riley, Phil Collins, Brazil, Jovino Santos Neto, and Uc-santa Cruz
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www.washingtonpost.com | October 18, 2007
Recordings
BACK WHEN THEY WERE bandmates in the David Grisman Quintet, mandolinist Mike Marshall and fiddler Darol Anger learned that their traditional string-band instruments could take on jazz, classical and world influences as well as the expected...
In this article: Darol Anger, Vasen, Appalachian, David Grisman Quintet, Michael Manring, Todd Phillips, and Montreux
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www.washingtonpost.com | January 19, 2006
Marshall And Thile's Mighty Mandolins
...virtuosity for its own sake is often a gruesome proposition. There was a danger, then, that the show by master mandolinists Mike Marshall and Chris Thile at the Wolf Trap Barns on Wednesday night would be mostly flash and little...
In this article: Chris Thile, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Nickel Creek
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Description from Wikipedia:
Mike Marshall is an American mandolin player and multi-instrumentalist who grew up in central Florida and now lives in Oakland, California. Marshall has been a part of new acoustic music since the early 1980s. He has performed and recorded with many musicians in a variety of styles, including bluegrass, classial, jazz and Brazilian music. In addition to several instruments within the mandolin family, Marshall also plays the guitar and violin.
Marshall has recorded and toured with other contemporary acoustic musicians such as David Grisman, Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, Stéphane Grappelli, Darol Anger, Barbara Higbie, and Jerry Douglas. His two recordings on the Sony Classical label: Uncommon Ritual with banjo innovator Béla Fleck and bassist Edgar Meyer; and Short Trip Home with violinist Joshua Bell, mandolinist Sam Bush and Meyer were both on the Billboard Classical Music charts.
Marshall and his long time partner, Darol Anger, have released 6 albums as a duo on Compass and Windham Hill Records. Together they have also recorded with their experimental bluegrass group Psychograss with guitarist David Grier, banjo player Tony Trischka and bassist Todd Phillips.
Mike has worked with Chris Thile from the group Nickel Creek. Their CD Into the Cauldron, released in 2003 on Sugar Hill Records, was listed in the top ten of Amazon.com’s favorite recordings for 2003.
Marshall is also a cook, and has been known to trade music lessons for cooking instruction with some of the San Francisco Bay area's finest chefs. He is also a producer, based in his Oakland Gatorland Studios.
- Occupation:
- Composer, musician
- Instrument Played:
- Guitar, mandolin, violin
- Associated With:
- Modern Mandolin Quartet
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