Jon Mark

Jon Mark (actually John Michael Burchell, born May 8, 1943 in Falmouth ( Cornwall) ), which today in Rotorua (New Zealand ) lives, is a British musician ( songwriter, singer, guitarist and keyboardist ) used in primarily for his band membership John Mayall and Mark - Almond is known.

Life and work

In 1963 Jon Mark with his school friend Alun Davies Album "Relax Your Mind " on. Composed from the mid- 1960s, and he arranged songs for Marianne Faithfull, whom he accompanied as an acoustic guitarist in the studio as well as their stage, radio and television appearances. He also worked as a session musician and producer Shel Talmy for which reported in several interviews that it was an Indian dyed song by Jon Mark, the Ray Davies to the Kinks hit " See My Friends" inspired.

Jon Mark was hired as a singer of the theme song by Christopher Morahans " Swinging Sixties " movie "All Neat in Black Stockings", whose soundtrack was composed by Robert Cornford and 1969 came to the cinema. Around this time, founded Mark together with Alun Davies, Nicky Hopkins, Brian Odgers and Harvey Burns said after John Steinbeck's novel Sweet Thursday band whose self-titled debut album, however, coincided with the bankruptcy of the record company, followed by " Sweet Thursday " disbanded and Mark in summer of 1969 joined John Mayall, where he was part of Mayall's successful and style- "Turning Point" Quartet, with whom he immediately went on tour and the album " the Turning Point " and " Empty Rooms " grossed.

In Mayall's band met the saxophonist and flutist Mark Johnny Almond, with whom he founded in 1970 together with bassist Roger Sutton and keyboardist Tommy Eyre, the folk-rock - jazz band Mark- Almond, published until the early 1980s eight albums and has over the years several line-up changes and name changes learned: " Jon Mark / Johnny Almond", " the Mark / Almond band", " Jon Mark / Mark - Almond band" or " Mark- Almond band".

While touring Jon Mark has lost in October 1972 in Hawaii most of the left ring finger, as Mark in Waikīkī jumped from a tree while his ring got caught on a nail, which has caused the cancellation of the tour and the permanent restriction of Marks guitar playing.

From the mid- 1970s, Mark has recorded several solo albums. Since the late 1980s, he has specialized in ambient music, which he released on his own label " White Cloud ". In 2004 Jon Mark and his wife Thelma Burchell for the recording and production of the album Spiritual receive Tibetan chants of the monks of Sherab Ling Monastery Grammy for Best Traditional World Music Album ( Best Traditional World Music Album).

Awards

  • 2004 Grammy for Best Traditional World Music Album ( Best Traditional World Music Album).

Discography

Early Singles

  • Baby I Got a Long Way to Go / Night Comes Down (together with the subsequent Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page ) ( UK Brunswick 05 929 19 February, 1965).
  • Paris Bells / Little Town Girl ( UK Brunswick 05952, February 1966 ).
  • Getting It Together / Mary On The Runaround ( Tetragrammaton Records T -1512, December 1968 ) (jointly with Sweet Thursday )
  • All Neat in Black Stockings / Run To Me (Philips BF 1772 UK, April 1969).

Early albums

  • Jon and Alun: "Relax Your Mind" ( 1963) ( together with the later Cat Stevens guitarist Alun Davies)
  • Sweet Thursday: Sweet Thursday (1969 ) (together with Alun Davies, Nicky Hopkins, Brian Odgers and Harvey Burns)
  • John Mayall: The Turning Point ( 1969)
  • John Mayall: Empty Rooms (1969 )
  • Paul Williams & Friends: In Memory of Robert Johnson ( 1973)

Mark- Almond

  • Mark- Almond (1971 )
  • Mark- Almond II ( 1972)
  • Rising ( 1972)
  • 73 (1973)
  • To the Heart ( 1976)
  • Other Peoples Rooms (1978 )
  • Tuesday in New York ( 1980)
  • Best of ... Live ( 1981) ( LP)
  • Best of ... Live ( 1981) ( DoLP )
  • The Last & Live (1987) ( CD version of Best of ... Live)
  • Night Music (1996 )

Compilations

  • The Best of Mark- Almond ( 1990) ( Black Sun )
  • The Best of Mark- Almond (1991) ( Rhino )
  • Mark- Almond (plus bonus tracks ) (2007 ) ( Body Heat Records)

Solo albums

  • Songs for a Friend (1975 )
  • The Lady and the Artist ( 1983)
  • The Standing Stones Of Callanish (1988 )
  • Land of Merlin ( 1992)
  • Hot Night (1992 )
  • Celtic Story ( 1995)
  • A Sunday in Autumn (1995 )
  • Asia Journey ( 1996)
  • All the Best From Jon Mark (1997)
  • Leaving of Ireland (along with David Anthony Clark) (1999).
  • Alhambra (2000)
  • Quiet Land of Erin (2003)
  • Meditation on Winter ( 2004)
  • New York, New York. 24 Hours In The Big Apple ( with John Stanford and Nick van Dijk ) (2008 ).
  • Sand ( with David Parsons ) (2008 ).

As an accompanist

  • Marianne Faithfull: Come My Way ( 1965)
  • Marianne Faithfull: Go Away From My World ( 1965)
  • Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Faithfull (1965 )
  • Marianne Faithfull: This Little Bird (1965 )
  • Marianne Faithfull North Country Maid ( 1966)
  • Mable Hillery: " It's So Hard to Be a Nigger " (1968) (guitar)
  • Ronnie Paisley Band: Smoking Mirrors ( 1979)
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