[Dixielandjazz] Marty Grosz

[Marek Boym]

Hi,
I don't remember the year, but many years ago I purchased a Marty
Grosz LP recorded either at the Gaslight or Your Father's Moustache.
A friend wanted it badly, I gave it to him, he passed (or lent) it to
someone else, and  it got lost.  But I am quite sure that it was
recorded long before the Soprano Summit came into being.
Cheers

On 9 December 2010 22:16, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> The Grosz Clinic is a play on words for the Gross Clinic, a newly restored
> legendary Thomas Eakins painting now on display at the Phila Museum of Art.
>
> Marty is legendary too, as this article points out.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>
>
>
> The Grosz Clinic
> A quick master class on Philly's hot jazz giant Marty Grosz.
> by A.D. Amorosi - Published: Dec 8, 2010 - The City Paper
>
> BRING THE HEAT: Marty Grosz doesn't care much for "egghead" jazz. He wants
> you to dance.
> Jazz has more than a few legends whose credits are shrouded by personal
> hubris, foible and sadness. Marty Grosz — scholar, crooner, virtuoso of the
> chordal acoustic guitar — is a different story. So much of his career has
> been riddled with joy. His brand of happy dancing hot jazz has long run in
> opposition to popular artists "coming out of jazz school playing egghead
> music that most people don't relate to and is not much fun to hear," as he
> puts it.
>
> "I don't want to listen to college kids turning themselves inside-out
> playing 45-minute versions of 'All the Things You Are' with endless
> saxophone solos," laughed Grosz on the phone from Munich last week during a
> brief tour of his birthplace. "It's tedious, man, bad form."
>
> Grosz moved to Philly several years ago to be close to his son who helped
> take care of Grosz' wife, who was felled by Alzheimer's. Though steady jazz
> gigs in the States are rarer than he'd like (hence the showcases abroad),
> Grosz is cheerfully ready for his third act. "I'm old enough that this is
> more like a fifth act, maybe."
>
> The first few acts weren't bad.
>
> Grosz moved around a bit since his father, George Grosz — the German
> Expressionist icon — brought his family to the States in 1933. The guitarist
> doesn't include the legendary painter at the top of his bio, nor does he
> hide the fact. "My father was immensely proud and supportive, but he
> understood my reasons," says Grosz. "What if his father had been
> Stravinsky?"
>
> Though he recorded first in the 1950s with New Orleans veterans like Pops
> Foster, Grosz went mostly unheralded until playing with Bob Wilber and Kenny
> Davern in Soprano Summit, '75-'79. Sessions with players like Vince
> Giordano, whose Nighthawks are in HBO's Boardwalk Empire, and other
> re-discoveries of the "hot" idiom, have made him an even more valued
> commodity. Last year saw the release ofMarty Grosz and Hot Winds: The
> Classic Sessions, while 2008 witnessed Acoustic Heat, duets with
> Django-ologist Mike Peters. Another CD's worth of material of the non-piano
> pop music of James P. Johnson, is due on Arbors records in 2011, to add to
> his 20-plus effusive recordings.
>
> "If you told Louis Armstrong or Jack Teagarden in 1935 that they'd be hired
> to play a jazz concert, they'd look at you like you were nuts," laughs
> Grosz. "They played for dancing — get the beat going, play the tune and
> improvise." That's the spirit of his collaborations with fellow fluttering
> guitarist Barry Wahrhaftig's Hot Club of Philadelphia.
>
> "Jazz came into prominence as bluegrass did — a folk music, if you will,
> that was often played wrong but with a sense of fun. Bluegrass makes people
> feel good and is still going on as such with people plucking and strumming.
> Jazz doesn't do that anymore. It should."
>
> (a_amorosi at citypaper.net)
> :The Hot Club of Philadelphia CD release party with Marty Grosz, Fri., Dec.
> 10, 8 p.m., $15-$20, The Mermaid Inn, 7673 Winston Road, Chestnut Hill,
> 215-247-9797, themermaidinn.net.
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