1. Marty Ashby is a music producer, concert organizer, and jazz guitarist.
15 Facts About Marty Ashby
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Marty Ashby has performed with a number of jazz groups and is an adjunct professor at Oberlin College.
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Marty Ashby began playing guitar at age seven, and a year later was performing in his family's band, 'The Ashby Family'.
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Marty Ashby held three jobs and worked as a musician for a variety of performing arts groups including The Cleveland Orchestra, Ohio Ballet, National Symphony and finally The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
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Marty Ashby worked at small scale jazz events and festivals.
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In 1987 Marty Ashby left the Pittsburgh Symphony and founded MCG Jazz, a program of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild.
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Marty Ashby has since produced about 2,000 concerts, including jazz concert series and one-time events, as well as developed youth jazz education and outreach projects.
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In 1994 Marty Ashby co-founded the MCG Jazz label with Bill Strickland, and has since produced about 40 recordings, including five GRAMMY Award winners and a series of educational DVDs produced from the MCG archive collection.
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Artists produced by Marty Ashby include Sheryl Bailey and Nancy Wilson.
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Marty Ashby has acted as artistic advisor and producer for jazz concerts and festivals around the United States, including the Animal Crackers jazz series in Racine, Wisconsin, Jazz on the Circle at Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Jazz at Seven Springs Festival in Champion, Pennsylvania.
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Marty Ashby is an adjunct professor at Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College where he teaches a Business of Jazz course to jazz performance majors and the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University.
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In September 2012, Marty Ashby was presented with the Century Club Award.
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Marty Ashby is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and a member of the Society of American Magicians.
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Marty Ashby is the EPP Goldman-Sachs fellow at the National Museum of American History.
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Marty Ashby was named as Pittsburgh's 2017 Jazz Hero by the Jazz Journalists Association.