Hot Winds: The Classic Sessions

Personnel: Marty Grosz (vocals, guitar, banjo); Vince Giordano (vocals, bass saxophone, tuba, bass instrument, 10-string bass); Daniel Block (clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Scott Robinson (clarinet, soprano saxophone, C-melody saxophone, baritone saxophone, cornet, alto horn); D. Robinson (alto saxophone); Panic Slim (trombone); Robert Garcia (glockenspiel, drums).
Audio Mixers: Doug Pomeroy; Chris Herles.
Liner Note Author: Marty Grosz.
Recording information: Clinton Recording Studios, New York, NY (05/21/2008-08/13/2008).
Editor: Doug Pomeroy.
Arranger: Marty Grosz.
Rhythm guitarist Marty Grosz has been a central figure squarely placed in the vintage/traditional/swing era/hot jazz style. He's in many ways a one-of-a-kind artist as a performer, while priding himself as an archivist, historian, and song excavator. The Hot Winds band that Grosz surrounds himself for this recording is loaded with multi-instrumentalists like Scott Robinson, Dan Block, and Vince Giordano, wielding an array of woodwind and brass instruments, especially from the clarinet family. What Grosz and crew accomplish is pretty much major league in terms of how they sustain interest through and through by mixing and matching front-line instruments, conceiving a new way to play these tunes with every twist and turn.