Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks

VINCE GIORDANO Grammy-winner, New York native and multi-instrumentalist Vince Giordano has played in New York nightclubs, appeared in films such as The Cotton Club, The Aviator, Finding Forrester, Revolutionary Road, Cafe Society, HBO's Boardwalk Empire and for concerts at the Town Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Newport Jazz Festival and the 92nd St Y for nearly five decades. Recording projects include soundtracks for the Scranton Sirens for Chiaroscuro at WVIA, the award-winning Boardwalk Empire with vocalists Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, St. Vincent, Regina Spektor, Neko Case, Leon Redbone, Liza Minnelli, Catherine Russell, Rufus Wainwright and David Johansen. Vince and his Nighthawks have also recorded for Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World, Tamara Jenkins' The Savages, Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, Sam Mendes' Away We Go, Michael Mann's Public Enemies, and John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings, along with HBO's Grey Gardens and the miniseries Mildred Pierce. The Nighthawks are also seen and heard in the USA Network series Royal Pains and in the PBS series Michael Feinstein's American Songbook, and many times with Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion. The band has also worked on Todd Haynes' Academy Award-nominated film Carol; the Emmy-winning bio-pic Bessie, and Cinemax's The Knick; and the Maggie Greenwald film Sophie and the Rising Sun plus the Emmy-winning series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; Woody Allen's Café Society; Barry Levinson's Wizard of Lies; the historical drama The Promise and Warner Brothers' The Joker. Vince also had a vocal in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. In the fall of 2020, the band released a CD recording with Loudon Wainwright III called, I'd Rather Lead a Band. In 2022, they recorded music for the film Don't Worry Darlings starring Harry Styles. Most recently, Vince and the augmented Nighthawks are on the soundtrack and are on-screen in the Martin Scorsese 2023 Killers of The Flower Moon.
 
Hudson West Productions feature documentary Vince Giordano  - There's a Future in the Past, opened in theaters in 2017 and is available on DVD and Apple TV. This is a brilliant documentary, which captures the triumphs and disasters involved in leading a band, plus the sheer amount of work involved.
 
Giordano's passion for music from the 1920's & 30's and the people who made it began at age 5. He has amassed an amazing collection of over 64,000 band arrangements and sheet music, 1920's and 30's films, 78rpm recordings and jazz-age memorabilia. Giordano sought out and studied with important survivors from the period; Whiteman's hot arranger Bill Challis and drummer Chauncey Morehouse, as well as bassist Joe Tarto, among others. Giordano's passion, commitment to authenticity, and knowledge led him to create a sensational band of like-minded players, the Nighthawks. For nearly 50 years, Vince Giordano has almost single-handedly kept alive a wonderful genre of American music that continues to spread the joy and pathos of an era that shaped our nation.