Marty Grosz

Marty Grosz, actually Martin Oliver Grosz ( born February 28, 1930 in Berlin ) is an American musician (guitar, banjo, vocals) of traditional and mainstream jazz.

Hailing from a musical family and raised in New York City Grosz (his father is the painter George Grosz ) first worked as a rhythm guitarist. In 1950 he took up with Dick Wellstood and Pops Foster. From 1954 he lived for twenty years in Chicago, where he worked with Albert Ammons, Floyd O'Brien, Art Hodes and Jim Lannigan. In 1975 he returned to New York, where he worked with his own groups and the Soprano Summit of Bob Wilber and Kenny Davern, for which he also wrote a number of arrangements. He continued to be involved in projects of Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart and played with Dick Hyman's Jazz Repertory Orchestra New York.

In 1986 he became a member of the Classic Jazz Quartet, which also includes Dick Wellstood, Joe and Dick Sudhalter Muranyi belonged and for which he also arranged. He also worked with Keith Ingham, and pursued after the dissolution of the quartet successfully launched a solo career. He also played concerts with Joe Pass, Herb Ellis and Charlie Byrd.

Grosz is also active as a jazz journalist.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Thanks ( Jazzology Records, 1993)
• Donaldson Redux ( Stomp Off, 1991, by Keith Ingham )
• Unsaturated Fats ( Stomp Off 1990 with Keith Ingham )

Encyclopedic entries

• Ian Carr et al Jazz Rough Guide Stuttgart 1999
• Martin Kunzler Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 1 Reinbek 2002