MARTY GROSZ

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Marty Grosz is today's foremost jazz rhythm guitarist and chord soloist. He is virtually the only major jazz guitarist who doesn't use an amplifier. This makes him either the last remaining proponent of the acoustic guitar tradition in jazz or the lone harbinger of a new non-electric movement.

Marty sings, too. His vocals have become as much in demand at record sessions and jazz concerts as his driving guitar rhythm. They are delivered in styles ranging from barrelhouse abandon to whispered restraint, and are sometimes raucous, often mischievous, but almost always informed with a wry sense of the absurd. One of jazz music's great comedians (his spontaneous monologs are often hilarious), Marty Grosz is a brilliant acoustic guitarist whose chordal solos bring back the sound of Carl Kress and Dick McDonough of the 1930s, while his vocals are very much in the Fats Waller tradition.

Martin O. Grosz was born in Berlin,
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MARTY GROSZ Hooray for Bix! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hooray for Bix!
Classic (1920s) Jazz 1958
MARTY GROSZ Let Your Fingers Do The Walking album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Let Your Fingers Do The Walking
Swing 1977
MARTY GROSZ Take Me To The Land Of Jazz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Take Me To The Land Of Jazz
Swing 1978
MARTY GROSZ Goody Goody album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Goody Goody
Swing 1979
MARTY GROSZ I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
Swing 1982
MARTY GROSZ Sings of Love & Other Matters album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sings of Love & Other Matters
Swing 1987
MARTY GROSZ Marty Grosz and the Keepers of the Flame (And the Imps) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Marty Grosz and the Keepers of the Flame (And the Imps)
Swing 1987
MARTY GROSZ Marty Grosz & Keith Ingham And Their Paswonky Serenaders  : Unsaturated Fats album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Marty Grosz & Keith Ingham And Their Paswonky Serenaders : Unsaturated Fats
Swing 1991
MARTY GROSZ Songs I Learned At My Mother's Knee And Other Low Joints album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Songs I Learned At My Mother's Knee And Other Low Joints
Swing 1993
MARTY GROSZ Thanks album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Thanks
Swing 1993
MARTY GROSZ Keep a Song in Your Soul album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Keep a Song in Your Soul
Swing 1994
MARTY GROSZ Swing It album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Swing It
Swing 1994
MARTY GROSZ Rhythm for Sale! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rhythm for Sale!
Swing 1999
MARTY GROSZ Left to His Own Devices album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Left to His Own Devices
Swing 2000
MARTY GROSZ Rhythm Is Our Business album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Rhythm Is Our Business
Swing 2001
MARTY GROSZ Remembering Louis album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Remembering Louis
Classic (1920s) Jazz 2002
MARTY GROSZ Jump Presents: Chasin' the Spots album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jump Presents: Chasin' the Spots
Swing 2004
MARTY GROSZ Acoustic Heat album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Acoustic Heat
Swing 2005
MARTY GROSZ Marty Grosz and His Hot Combination album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Marty Grosz and His Hot Combination
Swing 2006
MARTY GROSZ Marty Grosz and Hot Winds: The Classic Sessions album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Marty Grosz and Hot Winds: The Classic Sessions
Swing 2009
MARTY GROSZ Marty Grosz and the Hot Winds: James P. Johnson Songbook album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Marty Grosz and the Hot Winds: James P. Johnson Songbook
Classic (1920s) Jazz 2011
MARTY GROSZ Diga Diga Doo: Hot Music from Chicago album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Diga Diga Doo: Hot Music from Chicago
Original New Orleans Jazz 2015

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MARTY GROSZ Banjo at the Gaslight Club album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Banjo at the Gaslight Club
Swing 1960
MARTY GROSZ Roaring Twenties At The Gaslight album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Roaring Twenties At The Gaslight
Swing 1961
MARTY GROSZ Ring Dem Bells album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ring Dem Bells
Swing 1995
MARTY GROSZ On Revival Day - Live at the Atlantic Jazz Party album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
On Revival Day - Live at the Atlantic Jazz Party
Dixieland 1995
MARTY GROSZ Marty Grosz Quartet: Just for Fun! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Marty Grosz Quartet: Just for Fun!
Swing 1997
MARTY GROSZ At Bob Barnard's Jazz Party 1999 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
At Bob Barnard's Jazz Party 1999
Swing 1999

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