Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Eddie Marshall functioned as a reliable session musician while also leading groups on occasion, performing and recording across free, hard bop, and jazz-rock contexts. He relocated from Springfield, Massachusetts to New York in the early 1960s, where he performed alongside Sam Rivers and Stan Getz. Recording sessions followed with Charlie Mariano and Toshiko Akiyoshi. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he joined the jazz-rock ensembles Almanac and Fourth Way, both featuring Mike Nock. Between 1971 and 1980 he served as house drummer at Keystone Korner, supporting Dexter Gordon, George Benson, and numerous other artists who appeared there. During the 1970s he contributed to many recordings led by Bobby Hutcherson and also worked with John Klemmer, Kenny Burrell, and Jon Hendricks. As a leader, Marshall documented dates with Larry Vukovich, Bruce Forman, and the ensemble Bebop & Beyond. He released his own leader session, Dance of the Sun, on Timeless in the late 1970s and issued another album, Holy Mischief, on the Ruddy Duck label in the late 1990s. Eddie Marshall suffered a fatal heart attack in September 2011 at the age of 73.
