After successful careers in running and broadcasting Marty returned to his first passion of music.
At 47, his prized guitar which had stayed in the closet for 35 years was liberated when Martys wife Deb gave him some guitar lessons for Christmas.
At about this time, Marty was asked by a friend if he would play guitar while the friend sang for her husband at a local restaurant. The restaurant owners offered Marty the opportunity to play at Sunday brunch.
After two years of brunches another night was added. Marty and another guitar player began playing on Thursday nights. Thats when things got interesting. A horn player came by and then a bass player and soon the group moved to the front of the restaurant and added a drummer.
A jazz tradition was started. A decade later, Jazz at Leonardos on Monday and Thursday nights has become a Gainesville tradition.
Marty is particularly influenced by Bucky Pizzarelli whom Marty had the opportunity to travel with and by the style of Jim Hall and Freddie Greene. Liquori is also influenced by the monumental guitarist Django Reinhardt. Martys group the Hot club de Ville plays in the style of Django.
Currently, Marty plays most often in a straight ahead jazz setting with the Marty Liquor Jazztet and also with the Hot Club in the drummerless gypsy jazz genre.
Hot Club de Ville plays in the style of Django Reinhardt and the Quintet du Hot Club de France.
Quintette du Hot Club de France was a jazz group founded in France in 1934 by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli.
One of the earliest and most significant jazz groups in Europe, the Quintette was described as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz."
Their most famous lineup featured Reinhardt, Grappelli, bassist Louis Vole, and rhythm guitarists Roger Kaput and Joseph Reinhardt (Djangos brother) who filled out the ensemble's sound and added occasional percussive effects.
Fifty years after Djangos death, The Hot Club concept is bigger than ever, worldwide.
The Hot Club de Ville includes original members Marty Liquori on guitar and Dave Forbes on upright bass.
Erik Abernathy is currently the rhythm guitarist.Geoff Fitzhugh Perry on violin has extensive experience in this genre and is a member of another gypsy group Babik out of Buffalo NY his former home town.
The years of music.
(in the video to the right): Geoff Perry violin, Marty Liquori and Thompson Fletcher guitars, Dave Forbes bass.
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