Marty Grosz

2011
Marty Grosz and the Hot Winds: James P. Johnson Songbook

1. 'Sippi
2. Hungry Blues
3. I Need Lovin'
4. I Was So Weak, Love Was So Strong
5. Alabama Stomp
6. Old Fashioned Love
7. Stop That Dog
8. If I Could Be With You
9. Charleston
10. My Headache
11. Don't Cry Baby
12. Ain'tcha Got Music
13. A Porter's Love Song to a Chamber Maid
14. Harlem Woogie

Marty Grosz's Hot Winds
Marty Grosz (guitar, banjo, vocals, all arrangements) James Dapogny (piano, celeste) Dan Block (clarinet, bass clarinet) Jon-Erik Kellso (trumpet) Scott Robinson (soprano, C-Melody and baritone saxes) Vince Giordano (string bass, tuba, bass sax) Arnie Kinsella: (drums, temple blocks) "Panic Slim" Jim Gicking: (guitar on track 14)

2009
Marty Grosz and Hot Winds - The Classic Sessions

1. Alabamy Home
2. Did I Remember?
3. If It Ain't Love
4. You
5. What'll I Do?
6. Don't Let It Bother You
7. I'd Rather Be With You
8. Murder In The Moonlight
9. Four Or Five Times
10. Life Begins When You're In Love
11. Spoken Introduction To Just A Gigolo
12. Just A Gigolo
13. Spoken Introduction To English Blues
14. English Blues

Marty Grosz's Hot Winds
Marty Grosz (g, bj, voc), Dan Block (cl, al sx, bs cl, bar sx), Scott Robinson (cl, sx, ct, al hrn), Vince Giordano (str bs, tuba, bs sx), Rob Garcia (drm, glockenspiel), Panic Slim (tb)

2006
Marty Grosz and his Hot Combination

1. Alabamy Home [4:16]
2. Did I Remember? [4:54]
3. If It Ain't Love [4:06]
4. You [4:37]
5. What'll I Do? [4:55]
6. Don't Let It Bother You [5:02]
7. I'd Rather Be With You [4:03]
8. Murder in the Moonlight [4:13]
9. Four or Five Times [7:05]
10. Life Begins When You're in Love [4:43]
11. Spoken Introduction to Just a Gigolo [6:06]
12. Just a Gigolo [3:42]
13. Spoken Introduction to English Blues [10:00]
14. English Blues [3:12]

Musicians
Marty Grosz (g, vcl), Jon-Erik Kellso (tpt), Ken Peplowski (cl, tn sx), Scott Robinson (bar sx, c-mel sax, cor), James Dapogny (p, cor), Vince Giordano (bs, bs sx), Arnie Kinsella (drm, Orch bells), Greg Cohen (bs)

1995 - 2005
Acoustic Heat

1. Jubilee
2. Sarong Number
3. Chicken á la Swing
4. Washboard Blues
5. I've Found a New Baby
6. The Mooche
7. Serenade
8. Three Little Words
9. The Silver Fox
10. Love Song
11. Gone with the Wind
12. Eddie's Twister
13. Street of Dreams
14. I'm Beginning to See the Light
15. If Dreams Come True
16. Mood Hollywood
17. Danzon
18. Midnight Oil
19. Stage Fright
20. Minuet in Miniature

Marty Grosz and Mike Peters
Marty Grosz (g, vcl), Mike Peters (g), Ken Peplowski (cl) track 10 - duet with Grosz, David Boeddinghaus (p) track 12 - duet with Peters

2004
Chasin' The Spots

1. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall [3:14]
2. If I Didn't Care [4:20]
3. I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire [3:15]
4. When the Sun Goes Down [5:31]
5. With Plenty of Money and You [2:57]
6. Whispering Grass [5:20]
7. Whoa Babe [2:55]
8. Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat [3:32]
9. Christopher Columbus [3:20]
10. My Prayer [4:06]
11. We'll Meet Again [4:15]
12. I Cover the Waterfront [3:33]
13. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off [2:21]
14. When My Dreamboat Comes Home [4:03]
15. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You [3:59]
16. Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do [4:00]
17. Maybe [3:56]
18. Swing High, Swing Low [2:16]

Musicians
Marty Grosz (g, vcl), Randy Reinhart(crnt), Jon-Erik Kellso(tpt), Scott Robinson(saxes), Dan Block(saxes), Vince Giordano(bs, bs sx), Arnie Kinsella(drms)

2004
Thanks

1. Alarm Clock Stomp
2. Thanks
3. Sunny Disposish
4. A Ghost Of A Chance
5. 'Leven Thirty, Saturday Night
6. Down By The Old Mill Stream
7. Moxie
8. Optimistic Rhythm
9. Love Is The Thing
10. I'm Changing My Tune
11. It Must Be True (You Are Mine, All Mine)
12. You Hit The Spot
13. Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
14. It Looks Like Rain (In Cherry Blossom Lane)
15. Chasing Shadows
16. Did I Remember?
17. Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

Marty Grosz and the Collectors' Items Cats
Marty Grosz (g, voc), Pete Ecklund (ct), Dan Barrett (tb), Bobby Gordon (cl), Scott Robinson (cl, saxes), Mark Shane (p), Keith Ingham (p), Murray Wall (bs), Greg Cohen (bs), Hal Smith (drms)

2001
Rhythm Is Our Business

1. Rhythm Is Our Business [3:43]
2. Believe It Beloved [3:39]
3. Yellow Dog Blues [5:12]
4. Diga Diga Doo [4:49]
5. Penthouse Serenade [3:45]
6. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea [5:04]
7. I'm in the Mood for Love [3:44]
8. Heartaches [4:06]
9. If We Never Meet Again [3:44]
10. That Da Da Strain [4:20]
11. Squeeze Me [4:34]
12. The Japanese Sandman [2:41]
13. Wabash Blues [4:29]
14. Dream Man [3:18]
15. Medley: Rhythm for Sale; He Ain't Got Rhythm; I Got Rhythm [10:17]

Marty Grosz & His Hot Puppies
Marty Grosz (gtr, voc), Randy Reinhart (tp), Frank Roberscheuten (cl, ten sx), Nico Gastreich (bs), Moritz Gastreich (dms)

2000
Left to His Own Devices

1. The New Yorker [4:18]
2. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie [4:36]
3. Dream Sweetheart [4:28]
4. Mood Hollywood [3:55]
5. The Night Was Made for Swing [3:02]
6. Then I'll Be Tired of You [4:38]
7. You're Gonna Lose Your Gal [3:12]
8. Street of Dreams [3:52]
9. Blue Echoes [4:14]
10. Dream Man [4:28]
11. I've Had My Moments [5:39]
12. Never Had a Reason to Believe in You [2:49]
13. Concentratin' (on You) [4:35]
14. Take Me to that Land of Jazz [3:17]
15. Jubilee [3:41]
16. Lonesome Me [4:02]

Musicians
Marty Grosz (g), Randy Reinhart (crnt), Scott Robinson (cl, sx), Dan Block (cl, sx), Greg Cohen (bs), Mike Peters (g)

1996
Just For Fun! (Live! Hamburg, April 13, 1996)

1. All I Do Is Dream of You [5:54]
2. Just Friends [4:06]
3. Love Is Just Around the Corner [7:46]
4. It's the Talk of the Town [4:19]
5. How Can You Face Me? [4:48]
6. Mood Indigo [6:43]
7. Sweethearts On Parade [5:35]
8. Ain't Misbehavin' [3:46]
9. A Hundred Years From Today [3:58]
10. If I Had a Talking Picture of You [3:06]
11. Memphis Blues [5:02]
12. The Lady Is in Love With You [5:11]

Marty Grosz Quartet
Marty Grosz (g, vcl), Alan Elsdon (tpt), Johnny Barnes (cl, sx) Murray Wall (bs)

1995
Ring Dem Bells (Live In Hamburg, Germany)

1. Rose of the Rio Grande
2. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
3. Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You
4. Nobody's Sweetheart
5. I Must Have That Man
6. You Brought a New Kind of Love
7. Old Man Blues
8. Ain't Cha Glad
9. My Daddy Rocks Me
10. Swing That Music
11. More Than You Know
12. She's Crying for Me
13 Ring Dem Bells

Marty Grosz and his Swinging Fools
Marty Grosz (g, vcl), Scott Robinson (cl, sx), Greg Cohen (bs), Jon-Erik Kellso (tpt), Chuck Riggs (d), Martin Litton (p)

1994
Keep a Song in Your Soul

1. Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia [3:36]
2. He Ain't Got Rhythm [3:40]
3. I've Got to Sing a Torch Song [4:12]
4. Hot Lips [3:40]
5. I've Got a Crush On You [4:20]
6. Georgia Jubilee [3:58]
7. Snuggled On Your Shoulder [5:50]
8. Keep a Song in Your Soul [3:34]
9. Little White Lies [3:55]
10. From Monday On [4:49]
11. Love Will Find a Way [4:44]
12. Cheerful Little Earful [4:15]
13. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man [3:48]
14. By the Fireside [3:50]
15. You Can't Stop Me for Lovin' You [3:35]
16. You Came to My Rescue [3:42]

Grosz leads two different groups during the 1994 sessions. One band has the members of his Orphan Newsboys (trumpeter Peter Ecklund, clarinetist Bobby Gordon, and bassist Greg Cohen) along with the reeds of Dan Levinson, pianist Chris Dawson, and drummer Hal Smith. The other half of this set features Ecklund, Cohen, trombonist Joel Helleny (whose plunger work is outstanding), Dan Block on clarinet and alto, Scott Robinson on tenor and baritone, pianist Keith Ingham, and drummer Artie Kinsella.

1994
Swing It

1. Let's Swing It [4:12]
2. The Skeleton in the Closet [4:37]
3. Emaline [5:24]
4. Old Man Harlem [3:08]
5. Love Dropped in for Tea [4:18]
6. Little Girl [4:58]
7. Sunrise Serenade [4:54]
8. I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' [4:17]
9. What's the Use? [4:55]
10. Eye Opener [4:10]
11. The Sun Will Shine Tonight [4:26]
12. It's Been So Long [5:19]
13. I Surrender, Dear [3:28]
14. It's the Last Time [4:47]
15. Sonny Boy {from the Singing Fool} [5:03]
16. A High Hat, a Piccolo and a Cane [2:49]

Marty Grosz with Destiny's Tots
Bobby Gordon (cl), Dan Barrett (tmbn), Hal Smith (dr), Keith Ingham (p), Loren Schoenberg (sx), Marty Grosz (gtr,vcl), Murray Wall (Bass), Peter Ecklund (Trumpet)

1994
Sings Of Love and other matters

1. With Plenty of Money and You
2. How Can You Face Me?
3. Lonesome Me
4. Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
5. All My Life
6. I'm in the Market for You
7. The Panic Is On
8. I Wish I Were Twins
9. A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid
10. My Very Good Friend the Milkman
11. Breakin' the Ice
12. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
13. I'm Building Up to an Awful Letdown
14. You've Been Taking Lessons in Love
15. The English Blues

Marty Grosz with Destiny's Tots
Marty Grosz (g, vc), Dick Meldonian (tn sx, sop sx, al sx), Dan Barrett (cnt, tb), Keith Ingham (p), Phil Flanigan (ac bs)

1993
Songs I Learned At My Mother's Knee & Other Low Joints

1. Stompy Jones
2. Just a Gigolo
3. Truckin'
4. Rise 'N' Shine
5. Dinner for One, Please, James
6. S'posin'
7. Isn't Love the Strangest Thing?
8. You
9. In a Little Gypsy Tea Room
10. Turquoise Light
11. The Curse of an Achin' Heart
12. Can't We Talk It Over?
13. Ain'tcha Got Music?
14. When I Take My Sugar to Tea
15. The Road to Morocco
16. I Believe in Miracles
17. Little by Little

Marty Grosz and Destiny's Tots
Marty Grosz (g, v), Keith Ingham (p), Greg Cohen (b), Peter Ecklund (ct), Dick Meldonian (ts), Bob Pring (tb), Randy Sandke (tpt), Ken Peplowski (as, cl), Joel Helleny (tb), Chuck Riggs (d).

1993
Thanks

1. Alarm Clock Stomp
2. Thanks
3. Sunny Disposish
4. A Ghost Of A Chance
5. 'Leven Thirty, Saturday Night
6. Down By The Old Mill Stream
7. Moxie
8. Optimistic Rhythm
9. Love Is The Thing
10. I'm Changing My Tune
11. It Must Be True (You Are Mine, All Mine)
12. You Hit The Spot
13. Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
14. It Looks Like Rain (In Cherry Blossom Lane)
15. Chasing Shadows
16. Did I Remember?
17. Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

Marty Grosz & Collectors Items Cats
Marty Grosz (g, vc), Pete Ecklund (ct), Dan Barrett (tb), Bobby Gordon (cl), Scott Robinson (cl, ts, bari sx, bs), Mark Shane (p), Keith Ingham (p), Murray Wall (bs), Greg Cohen (bs), Hal Smith (dr).

1987
Marty Grosz and the Keepers of the Flame (And the Imps) (Out Of Print)

1. Miss Annabelle Lee
2. Baby
3. My Sweet Valentine Went Away
4. It's Right Here For You
5. Oh, Miss Hannah
6. Sentimental Baby
7. I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight
8. He's the Last Word
9. A Jazz Holiday
10. True Blue Lou
11. Sugar
12. Last Night On The Back Porch
13. Bessie Couldn't Help It
14. I Left My Sugar Standing In The Rain
15. Tell 'Em 'Bout Me When You Reach Tennessee
16. Mandy

The Keepers of the Flame
Joe Muranyi (cl), Paul Bacon (comb)

The Imps
Peter Ecklund (ct), Andy Stein (violin), Joe Muranyi (cl), Paul Bacon (comb), Frank Vignola (gtr), Dick Wellstood (bs sx & str bs), Vince Giordano (bs sx & str bs)

1986
The Complete Recordings

1. Rose of the Rio Grande
2. Chloe
3. I Wish I Were Twins
4. I'll Never Be the Same
5. Doin' the Gotham Glide
6. Inka Dinka Doo
7. Mississippi Mud
8. Melody from the Sky
9. You're Driving Me Crazy
10. Blue River
11. Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jibe
12. Empty Penthouse Blues
13. Hallelujah
14. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
15. Sherman's Folly
16. Happy Feet

1. Freeze and Melt
2. It's the Mood That I'm In
3. Strut, Miss Lizzie
4. There's a Cabin in the Pines
5. Wouldn't It Be Loverly?
6. Chinatown, My Chinatown
7. Hustlin' and Bustlin' for Baby
8. Home No More
9. Sugar Foot Strut
10. It's the Girl
11. Mean Old Bed Bug Blues
12. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll
13. Medusa
14. Dollar Dance
15. Wonderful One

The Classic Jazz Quartet
Dick Sudhalter (cnt), Joe Muranyi (cl,ss), Dick Wellstood (p), Marty Grosz (g,vcl)

1981
I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music (Out Of Print)

1. Serenade To A Wealthy Widow
2. Junk Man (vox)
3. You Are My Lucky Star
4. Cactus Charlie
5. When Day Is Done
6. You Call It Madness
7. I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music (vox)
8. Lonesome Me (vox)
9. My Old Gal
10. California, Here I Come

The Marty Grosz and His Blue Angels
Marty Grosz (g, vc), Jimmy Maxwell (tpt), Dick Wellstood (p), Sam Parkins (cl), Dick Meldonian (tn sx, sop sx), Bobby Pring (tb), Jack Six and Pete Campo (bs), Freddie Stoll (dm)

1978
Goody Goody (Out Of Print)

1. Goody Goody
2. I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling
3. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
4. Body and Soul
5. The Panic Is On (vox)
6. Honeysuckle Rose
7. Sweet Substitute (vox)
8. Blonde on the Loose
9. Test Pilot
10. I Would Do Anything For You (vox)

Marty Grosz and Wayne Wright
Marty Grosz (g, vc), Wayne Wright (g)

1978
Take Me To The Land Of Jazz (Out Of Print)

1. Shine
2. Moments Like This
3. Let Yourself Go
4. T'aint No Sin
5. I Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers
6. The Gold Digger's Song (We're In The Money)
7. Take Me To The Land Of Jazz
8. Isn't Love The Strangest Thing
9. Snowy Morning Blues
10. Sleep
11. (I'd Do) Anything For You
12. The Gold Digger's Song (version 2)

The Marty Grosz | Dick Wellstood Quintet
Marty Grosz (g, vc), Dick Wellstood (p), Sam Parkins (tn sx, cl), Mickey Galizio (bs), Tommy Benford (dm)

1977
Let Your Fingers Do The Walking (Out Of Print)

1. Cross Your Heart
2. Chick A La Swing
3. Slightly Under The Weather
4. Porter's Love Song
5. Street Of Dreams
6. Danzon
7. Stage Fright
8. I Believe In Miracles
9. Pack Up Your Trunk
10. Just Squeeze Me
11. Skylark
12. By The River St. Marie
13. Lament In E
14. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me

Marty Grosz and Wayne Wright
Marty Grosz (g, vc), Wayne Wright (g)

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1977
Live At Concord '77

1. Strike up the Band
2. Puggles
3. Elsa's Dream
4. How Can You Face Me?
5. Dreaming Butterfly
6. Tracks in the Snow
7. Lament
8. The Panic Is On
9. Panama Rag

Soprano Summit
Kenny Davern (cl, sx), Bob Wilber (cl, sx), Marty Grosz (b, g), Monty Budwig (bs), Jake Hanna (dm)

1976
Chalumeau Blue

1. Nagasaski
2. Chalumeau Blue
3. Black and Tan Fantasy
4. Grenadilla Stomp
5. Danny Boy
6. Everybody Loves My Baby
7. Linger Awhile
8. Slightly Under the Weather
9. Wake Up Chillen'
10. Ole Miss
11. Debut
12. Some of These Days
13. Jazzspeak
14. Prince of Wails
15. Netcha's Dream

16. Oh, Daddy!
17. When Day Is Done
18. When My Dreamboat Comes Home
19. There'll Be Some Changes Made
20. If You Were the Only Girl in the World
21. I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
22. Wequassett Wail
23. Arkansas Lullaby
24. Crazy Rhythm
25. Lover, Come Back to Me
26. Nagasaki
27. Everybody Loves My Baby
28. Georgia Cabin
29. Song of the Wanderer

Soprano Summit
Kenny Davern (cl, sx), Bob Wilber (cl, sx), Marty Grosz (b, g), George Duvivier (bs), Bobby Rosengarden (dm)

1959
Albert's Back in Town

1. Farewell Blues
2. Fidgety Feet
3. Lulu's Back in Town
4. Creole Love Call
5. Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
6. Sobbin' Blues
7. Runnin' Wild
8. How Long Blues
9. That's a Plenty
10. You Gotta See Your Mama Every Night
11. Lulu's Back in Town [alternate take]
12. Fidgety Feet
13. Creole Love Call
14. Farewell Blues [alternate take]
15. That's a Plenty [alternate take]

Albert Nicholas w/ Art Hodes' All Star Stompers
Albert Nicholas (cl), Art Hodes (p), Nappy Trottier (tpt), Floyd O'brien (tb), Marty Grosz (g)

1957
Hooray for Bix!

1. Changes
2. Cryin' All Day
3. Lonely Melody
4. I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now
5. Sorry
6. My Pet
7. The Love Nest
8. Clementine
9. Oh, Miss Hannah
10. Wa-Da-Da (Everybody's Doin' It Now)
11. For No Reason At All In 'C'
12. Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now

Marty Grosz & His Honoras Causa Jazz Band
Marty Grosz (gtr,vc), Carl Halen (cn), Turk Santos (cn), Harry Budd (tm), Frank Chace (cl), Bob Skiver (tn sx,cl), Tut Soper (pn), Chuck Neilson (bs), Pepper Boggs (dm)

More to come...