Naftalin, Mark

Naftalin, Mark 2 August 1944; Minneapolis, MN A keyboard player and producer, Naftalin was instrumental in the blues revival of the late 1960s and remains a respected, influential, and active musician to this day. As a student at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s, he met, and occasionally played with, singer and harmonica player Paul Butterfield and guitarist Elvin Bishop , core members of what would become the Paul Butterfield Blues Band . Moving to New York in the mid-1960s to…