Marty Grosz

Among jazz music’s great comedians (his spontaneous monologues tend to be hilarious), Marty Grosz is an excellent acoustic guitarist whose chordal solos recreate the audio of Carl Kress and Dick McDonough from the 1930s, even though his vocals have become much in the Fat Waller custom. It required Grosz quite a while to get some good visibility. He was raised in NY, attended Columbia University or college, and in 1951 led a Dixieland music group with Dick Wellstood that was unrecorded. Located in Chicago, Grosz do record with Dave Remington, Artwork Hodes, and Albert Nicholas in the 1950s; led classes of his personal in 1957 and 1959 for Riverside and Sound Fidelity; and attempted his better to coax Jabbo Smith away of pension (a few of their rehearsals had been later on released on LP), but was fairly obscure until he became a member of Soprano Summit (1975-1979). From then on association finished, Grosz became a occupied freelancer around the traditional jazz scene, using Dick Sudhalter, Joe Muryani, and Dick Wellstood in the Vintage Jazz Quartet, and later on going the Orphan Newsboys, an excellent quartet that also contains Peter Ecklund, Bobby Gordon, and bassist Greg Cohen. Marty Grosz, a distinctive personality, has documented several delightful units for Jazzology and Stomp Off.