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.

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