By the mid eighties his skilful guitar styles and writing led him to appear as special guest to many well known bands in the UK/European rock circuit, notably Barclay James Harvest, who were nearing the peak of their massive European popularity. In 1987 he released his fourth album, ‘Water From The Well’ featuring Guy Evans and former Hawkwind member Nik Turner, stretching the traditional song based format by featuring songs on one side and instrumentals on the other. One of the songs, "Papa Echo Alpha Charley Echo" was produced by Nigel Gray, producer of early albums by The Police. In 1989 he released the solo video album ‘Beyond This Point’ with a live sound track and powerful visuals of dramatic cliffs, seascapes and fantasy sequences. In 1991 the live album ‘Mazlyn Jones’ was released which included the title songs from the first three albums along with previously unreleased material. Using no studio trickery, this album is an accurate representation of his live performance.

1993 saw the release of the purely instrumental and very fluid album ‘Angels Over Water’. Through the nineties he continued solo touring using the back projections occasionally featuring guest musicians at various festivals. The juxtaposition of Guy Evans's percussion and shamanic drumming with NMJ’s electro-acoustic guitars and santor makes a very fertile ground for improvisation. He featured this line-up along with Nik Turner and other friends on the Glastonbury Festival main stage in 1992 where he also featured solo on the acoustic stage.

In 1996 Nigel and Guy featured as special guests to synth legend Klaus Schulze in Derby. Nigel and Guy have played many chill out sets at the top London club Whirlygig, one of which is represented by the track "Parachute Landings" on the 1997 album ‘NMJ Live with Guy Evans , Nik Turner and Friends’. The nineties saw NMJ’s music used on TV landscape films in the UK and abroad, a solo feature on the BBC Glastonbury documentary "Festival", appearances on Roy Harper's album ‘Once’ and guest appearances on Bob Geldof's UK tour. In 1997 BBC2 made a 15 minute feature on one of his songs ‘Planet for $ale’ By 2007 this had turned into a ferocious and trancy album featuring Steve Hillage, Guy Evans and Banco De Gaia with profits going to charities.

2000 saw the release of the acoustic album ‘Behind the Stone’ with all the songs fans had asked for through the nineties. From 1995 to now he has also renovated two barns which now serve as home and studio. Currently the new 6 and 12 guitar acoustic album is ongoing with selected solo and ensemble gigs being planned. His history proves his love of nature and this comes across strongly in his lyrics and instrumentals as does his refusal to be compromised and sidetracked from his overview of life which has never wavered summed up by ‘its one small planet we are all on and we rapidly need to get it together and look after it better’

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