{{short description|American drummer}}

{{about|the jazz drummer active in the 1920s–1940s|the jazz drummer active in the 1940s–1980s|Joe Marshall (musician)}} {{more footnotes needed|date=May 2011}} {{Infobox musical artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Kaiser Marshall | honorific_suffix = | image = Kaiser Marshall.jpg | alt = | caption = Kaiser Marshall | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Joseph Marshall | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|1902|06|11}} | birth_place = Savannah, Georgia | origin = Boston | death_date = {{death date and age|1948|01|02|1902|06|11}} | death_place = New York City | genre = Jazz | occupation = Drummer | instrument = | years_active = <!-- YYYY–YYYY (or –present) --> | label = | associated_acts = George L. Stone, Charlie Dixon, Shrimp Jones | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} -->

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'''Joseph''' "'''Kaiser'''" '''Marshall''' (June 11, 1902 in Savannah, Georgia – January 2, 1948 in New York City) was an American jazz drummer.

Marshall was raised in Boston, where he studied under George L. Stone. He played with Charlie Dixon before moving to New York City early in the 1920s. After playing with violinist Shrimp Jones, he joined Fletcher Henderson's band at the Club Alabam, and remained in Henderson's retinue from 1922 until 1929. He played with many noted jazz artists in the 1930s and 1940s, including Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Art Hodes, Wild Bill Davison, Sidney Bechet, Bunk Johnson, and Mezz Mezzrow. He also recorded with Louis Armstrong in the late 1920s, being the drummer on Armstrong's recording of "Knockin' a Jug"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=I5wrGL-a-Q8C&dq=Joe+Marshall+drums&pg=PR99-IA70 ''The Rough Guide to Jazz'', p. 512. Rough Guides, 2004] at Google Books. Retrieved 1 April 2013.</ref> from March 5, 1929.

In 1928-1930, he recorded with Benny Carter, Fats Waller and Coleman Hawkins in McKinney's Cotton Pickers.<ref>Morton, Brian and Cook, Richard (2010) [https://books.google.com/books?id=K7svgLNMxjgC&dq=McKinney%27s+Cotton+Pickers+kaiser+Marshall&pg=PT121 ''The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums''] at Google Books. Retrieved 1 April 2013.</ref> And shortly afterrecorded with the Four Bales of Hay, featuring Wingy Manone, Dickie Wells, Artie Shaw, Bud Freeman, Frank Victor, John Kirby and either Teddy Wilson or Jelly Roll Morton.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zy3XOvATyDcC&q=Kaiser&pg=PA408 ''Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years''], Yanow, Scott (2003) p. 173. Backbeat Books at Google Books. Retrieved 1 April 2013.</ref>

He also recorded for the Mezzrow-Bechet Quintet (Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow, Fitz Weston, Pops Foster and Marshall).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fvUDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Joe+Marshall+drums&pg=PA21|title=The Billboard|date=May 1948|publisher=Billboard|via= Google Books|accessdate= April 1, 2013}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== *Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz''. Oxford, 1999, p.&nbsp;440.

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