Mr. Vince Giordano

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  www.dailyrecord.com/article/20091106/ENT/91103010/1005/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/6/2009    Last Visited: 11/6/2009  

  Music of the period will be provided by the Metropolitan Club Orchestra, led by jazz musician Vince Giordano. Period 'teens, '20s or modern formal or military attire is requested.

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  Published on: 9/20/2007    Last Visited: 9/27/2007  

  Hours of rare, and never-before seen features include a myriad of vintage shorts and film excerpts, a 1947 radio show adaptation featuring Jolson a Tex Avery cartoon and a commentary from film historians Ron Hutchinson (founder of The Vitaphone Project) and Vince Giordano.
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  * Commentary by film historians Ron Hutchinson and Vince Giordano

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  Published on: 4/6/2009    Last Visited: 4/6/2009  

  Vince Giordano (co-music director) and the Nighthawks
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  Vince Giordano (co-music director) and the Nighthawks
  
  In 35 years as a bandleader, Vince Giordano has become the authority on recreating the sounds of 1920s and '30s jazz and popular music.
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  Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks were featured in Gus Van Sant's Finding Forrester, Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, Robert DeNiro's The Good Shepherd, Tamara Jenkin's The Savages and Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road.
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  Also a big-band historian and collector, Giordano has more than 32,000 scores in his collection. In addition to playing the string bass, Giordano is a multi-instrumentalist on tuba, bass saxophone, banjo, rhythm guitar, piano and drums. Currently Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks can be heard every Monday evening at Sofia's Restaurant (downstairs), located at 221 West 46th Street, adjacent to the Hotel Edison in New York City.
  
  The Nighthawks: Vince Giordano, co-music director/ string bass/bass sax/tuba

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  The audio commentators are Ron Hutchinson of the Vitaphone Project (which is devoted to restoring early Vitaphone pictures) and ace musician Vince Giordano, whose period expertise has been put to good use by the likes of Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese.
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  Hutchinson and Giordano then go on to aver that in the cases of Jolson and Cantor, blackface was not used for purposes of racial caricature, but to accentuate the whites of the eyes and the white-gloved hands of the performer.

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  Published on: 4/23/2006    Last Visited: 8/29/2007  

  Musicians: Bent Persson (co, tp), Matthias Seuffert (cl, as), Jim Snyder (tb), David Sager (tb), Keith Nichols (p, voc), John Gill (g, bjo), Vince Giordano (sb, bb), C. H. "Pam" Pameijer (dr)

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  Published on: 6/18/2009    Last Visited: 6/18/2009  

  Vince Giordano Riverwalk Jazz: Vince Giordano Profile
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  Guest Profile: Vince Giordano
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  Vince Giordano
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  Vince Giordano Vince Giordano began his odyssey into the world of music at the age of five.
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  This gave Vince the education he sought: a thorough grounding with first-hand experience in the sounds of the great Jazz Age era from Challis and the other older musicians he met and played with.
  
  Vince continued to expand his musical abilities and was soon fully established as a free-lance musician in New York, playing in Broadway pit bands as well as recording sessions and traditional jazz bands. He began collecting original jazz charts, and he soon established Vince Giordano's Nighthawks-a band dedicated to playing the golden era of jazz repertory.
  
  Vince's attention to the authenticity of transcribing arrangements from old recordings, his insistence on precision, and his love of re-creating the music transformed his Nighthawks into the most sought-after jazz band in New York City. Vince Giordano's Nighthawks have been 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 Gus Van Sant's latest film, Finding Forrester. 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.

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  Published on: 10/1/2009    Last Visited: 11/3/2009  

  VINCE GIORDANO
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  Vocation and avocation are one with Giordano, who's not only a genuine scholar of the music he favors (vintage 20s and early-30s swing, primarily) but also one of its most enthusiastic boosters. It's hard to imagine a musician more joyous in his approach than Vince, who can deftly switch from aluminum upright bass to tuba and then to bass saxophone within a single chorus and who chooses to make peppy between-tune announcements through a megaphone. His principle instrument, though, is his Nighthawks Orchestra, for which he's principal arranger and sparkplug.

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  Published on: 7/9/2007    Last Visited: 10/17/2007  

  Hours of rare, and never-before seen features include a myriad of vintage shorts and film excerpts, a 1947 radio show adaptation featuring Jolson, a commentary from film historians Ron Hutchinson (founder of The Vitaphone Project) and Vince Giordano, and a wealth of collectible memorabilia.
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  * Commentary by film historians Ron Hutchinson and Vince Giordano

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  Published on: 10/9/2008    Last Visited: 10/9/2008  

  Join the Morris County Historical Society and the Metropolitan Vintage Dance & Social Club at a 1918-style Armistice Ball on Saturday, November 8, 2008, at the Clifton Community Recreation Center, 1232 Main Ave., Clifton, NJ, from 7 to 10 p.m. Renowned jazz musician Vince Giordano will lead a six-piece dance orchestra assembled especially for this event.
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  In 30 years as a bandleader, Vince Giordano has become the authority on recreating the sounds of 1920s and '30s jazz and popular music.He and his regular band, the Nighthawks, can be heard every Monday evening at Sofia's Restaurant at the Edison Hotel in Manhattan.At the Armistice Ball, Giordano will be joined by Dan Levinson on clarinet; Ken Salvo, banjo; Andy Schumm, cornet; Dave Bock, trombone; and Sue Fischer, drums.

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  Published on: 1/15/2008    Last Visited: 9/15/2008  

  and Vince Giordano
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  The performers are soprano Jonita Lattimore, mezzo-soprano Mary Testa, and baritone James Martin with Steven Blier at the piano, Greg Utzig on guitar/banjo and Vince Giordano on bass.
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  We also wanted to bring back "Harry, Hoagy and Harold" for these three incredible singers as well as musicians Greg Utzig and the legendary Vince Giordano.
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  Vince Giordano is a musician, arranger, and authority on performing 1920s and '30s jazz and popular music.Woody Allen, Madonna, Terry Zweigoff, Garrison Keillor and the New York Philharmonic have all used Giordano and his eleven-piece big band, the Nighthawks, in their films, video and radio performances.
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  Giordano is especially noted for orchestrations featured in the movies of Woody Allen, and is a frequent performer on the radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor.Mr. Giordano has performed at the Smithsonian, Carnegie Hall, the JVC Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center, and the Breda Jazz Festival in Holland.His many recordings include Bix: An Interpretation of a Legend (RCA), the original soundtrack from the 1990 film, soundtrack to Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, and Finding Forrester.Also a big-band historian and collector, Mr. Giordano has more than 30,000 scores in his personal collection.

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