Jon Marks starb im Juli 2007 nach schwerer Krankheit. Alle die ihn kannten, schätzten seine coole britische Art und ganz besonders sein musikalisches Genie.

VITA: Jon Marks, New Orleans jazz pianist. July 11, 1947 - July 23, 2007.
Marks began learning the piano at the age of 7. His brother David Marks (psychologist) played the banjo. He took Jon to a jazz gig when he was 14 and Jon never looked back. Marks drew inspiration from his mentor and friend, pianist [Alton Purnell]. Marks played with Kid Thomas, clarinetist/saxophone player Sammy Rimington, and the Louis Nelson Band, among others. He played with Kid Martyn's Ragtime Band at the first two New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivals in 1968 and 1969 and at Louis Armstrong's 70th Birthday celebration, "Hello Louis", in 1970. Marks made his home-base in Berlin, Germany in the late 1970s from where he produced recordings and played with his own New Orleans Jazz trio. Of Marks' playing, Herb Friedwald wrote in the liner notes to "The Orange Kellin Trio" (GHB Records, BCD-384) – "Jon Marks is one of the best and certainly the most forceful of the pianists now playing in this idiom."