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LIVE PERFORMANCES Jazz at Chautauqua, Chautauqua, NY September 16 - 19, 2010 More Info (compliments of JAZZ LIVES Blog) » The Hot Club of Philadelphia wsg Marty Grosz Friday, August 13, 2010 8:30-12:30 The Mermaid Inn 7673 Winston Road, Winston & Germantown Chestnut Hill, PA 215-247-9797 It may be Friday the 13th, but your luck is always good with the HCPhilly @ the 'maid! Special guests singer/guitarist/storyteller Marty Grosz, and ace accordion wiz Dallas Vietty. The joint is jumpin' ain't no chumpin'! Get there early if you want good seats! Marty Grosz 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 Ocean County Library 101 Washington St. Toms River, NJ 08753 Phone: 732-349-6200 Pricing: $13 advance, $15 door sponsored by Ocean County College Phone: 732-255-0500 On Feb. 10, Ocean County Library in Toms River will round out this vintage-jazz feast by presenting Marty Grosz, a fine acoustic jazz guitarist and noted raconteur whose chordal solos reach back to the 1930s. Joining him will be trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso and reed man Dan Block. LINKS NORWICH JAZZ PARTY: THE KEN 'N' MARTY SHOW May 8, 2010 ALISON KERR'S JAZZ BLOG Among the many highlights of this year's Norwich Jazz Party was the return, to British shores anyway, of "The Ken 'n' Marty Show". READ MORE » MAKING RECORDS WITH MARTY GROSZ May 26, 2008 JAZZ LIVES (Blog) The facts first. Grosz, looking more healthy and energized than at the previous recording session I attended (Marty Grosz and his Hot Combination for Arbors) is in equal parts vaudevillian and serious jazz scholar, crooner and chordal guitar virtuoso - someone who loves what he calls "jazz arcana" and an indefatigable rhythmic sparkplug. I've seen him lead groups where his is the only rhythm instrument, and he swings any number of horns easily. READ MORE » 2009 JAZZ AT CHAUTAUQUA September, 2009 JAZZ LIVES (Blog) Three articles (with videos) of Mary Grosz on stage at the 2009 "Jazz At Chautauqua": MARTY GROSZ: "EARLY BENNY" September 30, 2009 MARTY GROSZ IN THE GROOVE! October 10, 2009 MARTY GROSZ LIKES IT HOT! October 19, 2009 
MY FATHER, THE FAMOUS ARTISTTo celebrate the great George Grosz, see his art and his son. By Rosie Millard The Independent He is a prolific recording artist who cut his first record in 1950, has made star appearances in movies such as Tootsie and Bullets Over Broadway and is a renowned jazz champion of original and rare works. But compared to his "old man", as he calls his father, the radical satirist George Grosz, he's not quite in the same league. READ MORE » Marty Grosz Interview October, 1992 Jazz Journal International, Vol. 45, No. 10 & No. 11 British publication Jazz Journal International published a great interview in 1992 that spanned two issues and is presented in PDF format for your reading pleasure here. RIVERWALK JAZZ WESITE: A weekly radio show devoted to classic jazz 
RANDOM QUOTES "Electrified rhythm guitar is rarely successful if at all, particularly when we mean rhythm in the accepted swing era sense, that is strumming chords in a 4/4 time. When the production of the beat becomes too easy, when there is no resistance, then there's no bite, no incisiveness, and usually NO SWING."
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