Preserving and Performing The Music of The 20's and 30's
More than simply a performer, Giordano is a big-band historian and collector with more than 60,000 scores in his collection. Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks are renowned on the New York scene for their commitment to preserving and authentically presenting 1920s and ‘30s jazz and popular music. In 2011, Giordano was featured in the PBS series Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook, in which he reveals his treasures from the Great American Songbook. Turner Classic Movie Film Festival also spotlighted Vince and the Nighthawks at Hollywood’s Music Box, where the band performed a special evening of vintage movie music, in addition to accompanying "The Cameraman", a Buster Keaton silent film shown at the Egyptian Theater. In the summer of 2012, jazz fans have seen them perform at the Newport Jazz Festival, Music Mountain, and the Litchfield Jazz Festival. He is listed as 'a friend of' Thornton Hagert & the Vernacular Music Research's historical archive of music in the Michael Segall 2006 book The Devil's Horn The Story of the Saxophone.
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