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Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks are generally acknowledged as the finest practitioners of music from the "flapper" era of the 20s and 30s playing today.
Vince's attention to the authenticity of transcribing arrangements from old recordings, his insistence on precision, and his love of re-creating the music has made his Nighthawks into the most sought-after jazz band in New York City, booked for black-tie galas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the New York City Ballet, the Waldorf Astoria, and for private parties for many prominent New Yorkers, as well as the Rainbow Room, the Carlyle Hotel, "21," and the Copacabana.
Vince has been invited to perform at the Smithsonian, Carnegie Hall, the JVC Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center, and the Breda Jazz Festival in Holland. Described by one critic as a "poet of the jazz repertory frozen by time... the authenticity of the music coupled with his first-hand knowledge of the original material provides him with insights, experiences, and an integrity that is unique to the musical world."
Giordano also lent his talents to Bix: An Interpretation of a Legend (RCA), the original soundtrack from the 1990 film. He was typecast as a bass player in Sean Penn's band in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, and he and the band are featured in the Gus Van Sant film, Finding Forrester. Perhaps most notably, the Nighthawks recorded 22 note-perfect recreations of vintage hits for the soundtrack of The Aviator, Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic, and Vince himself appears in the film in the center of a vocal trio singing “Happy Feet” ala Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys.
Also a big-band historian and collector, Giordano has more than 30,000 scores in his collection, most of which were found on cross-country trips spent poking around in musicians' basements. Ths songlist of the Nighthawks includes an astonishing 1,000+ charts.
To summon up the days of Busby Berkeley and bathtub gin, look no farther than Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks.
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“I had no idea that this music had so much vitality and so much energy to it.” - Leonardo DiCaprio, discussing Vince's work on "The Aviator" in which DiCaprio played Howard Hughes
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