Marty co-leads TC Jazz — an ensemble whose repertoire moves comfortably from Cole Porter and Harold Arlen to Miles Davis and Bill Evans — and has been a working bassist across the Bay Area for decades, equally at home in jazz combos and full big bands. He also plays violin, which he mentions only when the moment calls for it. The moment always calls for it.
Within Vintage Noise, Marty has become a monthly fixture at the GrandView — reliable, warm, and deeply musical in the way only a lifetime of listening produces. He and Michael have an easy rapport on the bandstand that spills naturally into the music, the kind where you’re never quite sure where the jokes end and the swing begins. When the violin comes out, Franz is the first to smile.