Mark Naftalin was born on August 2,1944 and is an American blues keyboardist and record producer.
11 Facts About Mark Naftalin
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Mark Naftalin appears on the first five albums by Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the mid 1960s as a band member, and as such was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Mark Naftalin later worked onstage with the late fellow Butterfield Band member Mike Bloomfield and has been active from his home in Marin County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area as a festival and radio producer for several decades.
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Mark Naftalin played as a duo with fellow Butterfield bandsman Mike Bloomfield.
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Mark Naftalin hosted Mark Naftalin's Blue Monday Party, a weekly blues show that featured over 60 blues artists and groups and was the scene of 86 live radio broadcasts and three TV specials.
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Mark Naftalin has produced the Marin County Blues Festival, and has been the associate producer of the Monterey Jazz Festival's "Blues Afternoon".
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Mark Naftalin co-founded the Blue Monday Foundation and, in 1988, started his own label, Winner Records, which has issued recordings by artists including Paul Butterfield and Percy Mayfield.
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Mark Naftalin continued to perform, both solo and in an ensemble, in the Bay area and elsewhere, often with longtime associate slide guitarist, Ron Thompson.
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Mark Naftalin played keyboards on the first Mother Earth album, Living With the Animals and was credited as co-producer and arranger.
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Mark Naftalin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 as an early member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
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Mark Naftalin's son is the San Francisco Bay Area artist David Normal.