Dominic J Marshall

Pianist, composer, vocalist, beatmaker, producer –

“He brings together a great heritage of the past, but also something very fresh and new.” (Jamie Cullum)

“Marshall plunges into the uncanny valley and frolics in it, inventing a fresh path for the genre with irreverent wit and divine grace.” (Okayplayer)

“He’s what you would call a piano virtuoso” (Jamz Supernova – BBC Radio 1Xtra)

“Marshall is a true master of the keys, his compositions awaken and expand the mind. Jazztronica at its finest.” (Inner Ocean Records)

Marshall’s 2013 album Spirit Speech – ‘an excellent, imaginative and distinctive album that repays repeated listens’ (LondonJazzNews) led him to be unanimously selected by Jamie Cullum, Gilles Peterson and Jez Nelson to perform at BBC Introduces, Manchester Jazz Festival that year.

In 2015 Dominic became the pianist for British nu-jazz group The Cinematic Orchestra, with whom he has performed all over the world including at Montreux Jazz Festival, Glastonbury Festival, Tokyo SummerSonic, Brixton Academy, Royal Festival Hall and LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. He also co-wrote ‘Lessons’, one of the hits from their acclaimed album To Believe.

Dominic’s hip-hop covers album Cave Art was one of KMHD’s top 10 jazz albums of 2015. UK Vibe called 2016’s The Triolithic “a very entertaining and refreshingly original album that is worthy of high praise.” 2017’s beat-tape Silence’s Garden sold out quickly on Acorn Tapes, Bringing Down The Band reflecting “These tracks have a great vintage texture, and a whole lot of bounce”. Cave Art volume 2 sold out in 2 days and was played on radio by DJ Househoes & J-Rocc.

It was Compassion Fruit, Dominic’s first vinyl release as a solo artist, that “exhibited his talents as a producer and multi-instrumentalist so well you’d think he’s been in the game for a decade with 5 albums behind him” (In Search of Media).

In 2020 Dominic released Nomad’s Land on Darker Than Wax – “a wonderfully crafted album from a gifted artist whose talents shine”; “great late night ‘future jazz’ to take you into the wee hours” (Backseat Mafia).

His last album Skeleton Keys was featured in Wordplay Magazine and track 07, ‘Mermaid’, has already been played on BBC Radio 2’s The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum and selected as track of the week on Jazz FM’s Late Night China Moses followed by sold out shows at London Jazz Festival and Ronnie Scott’s.

Jamie Cullum called 2023’s ‘Meadowsweet’ single a “Lovely mix of sounds and a new direction for Dominic J Marshall but it really works. Beautiful track.”

Groovement magazine called it a “multi-layered, joyous new track”. Another single ‘Glassnoodles’ came out shortly after on Inner Ocean’s ‘Colour Theory’ LP compilation. Since then Dominic has released the first two parts of his Revelation suite re-mythologising the Biblical stories, ‘The Woman and the Dragon’ and ‘The Beast out of the Sea’.