Mark Naftalin's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Mark Naftalin (born August 2, 1944) is an American blues keyboardist and record producer. The birth-card coordinate for August 2 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2015 Performers with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2015 Performers — inducted member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Mark Naftalin's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Mark Naftalin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

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Mark Naftalin in the public record

He 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. He 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. Naftalin moved to Chicago in 1961, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1964, where he performed on piano at campus "twist parties," popular at the time. It was at these parties that Naftalin first played with blues harmonica player Paul Butterfield and guitarist Elvin Bishop, the nucleus of what was to become the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Naftalin then came to prominence as the keyboard player in the Butterfield Blues Band, from 1965-1968. On the group's first album, he solos and has a writing credit on the instrumental track "Thank You Mr. Poobah." On the second album by the band, East West, he is credited as "Naffy Markham". In the late 1960s, after the first four Butterfield albums, Naftalin went out on his own, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Mark Naftalin (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for J♦, J♣, 3♠, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.

Also on the record

1. There he put together the Mark Naftalin "Rhythm & Blues Revue" and has been active in blues and rock recording sessions, solo gigs and revue shows, and as a producer of concerts, festivals and radio shows.
2. He played as a duo with fellow Butterfield bandsman Mike Bloomfield.
3. He also in a band (most often called Mike Bloomfield & Friends) from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s.
4. He hosted Mark Naftalin's Blue Monday Party, a weekly blues show (1979–1983) that featured over 60 blues artists and groups and was the scene of 86 live radio broadcasts and three TV specials.

Other inductees with this card

• Alex Van Halen — 2007 Performers with Van Halen
• Annette Beard — 1995 Performers with Martha and the Vandellas
• Atticus Ross — 2020 Performers with Nine Inch Nails
• Bill Legend — 2020 Performers with T. Rex
• Bill Withers — 2015 Performers
• Bob Bogle — 2008 Performers with The Ventures
• Chris Frantz — 2002 Performers with Talking Heads
• Doris Kenner-Jackson — 1996 Performers with The Shirelles
• Eddie Hazel — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
• Garth Hudson — 1994 Performers with The Band
• James Taylor — 2000 Performers
• Jeremy Spencer — 1998 Performers with Fleetwood Mac
• 11 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Mark Naftalin's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. August 2 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Mark Naftalin's dates come from?

Birth date 1944-08-02 is the day-precision date on Mark Naftalin's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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