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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 …

The 1970s, a time most widely known in jazz because the “fusion years,” appeared like an extremely unlikely time and energy to form a vintage jazz/mainstream group. At Dick Gibson’s annual Colorado Jazz Party in 1972, Bob Wilber and Kenny Davern therefore enjoyed playing collectively during one track that within …