According to Giordano, the exuberance of this music was new to 1920s America. The Jazz Age, often fueled by liquor despite Prohibition, contrasted with the restrained formality of the earlier Victorian era.
And although the music was all-American, its beating heart was New York, a fact not lost on the likes of Woody Allen, who often uses the Nighthawks in the soundtracks of his New York-based period films.
“The thing that is amazing about New York is that everybody, in all styles, wound up here, whether it was in ragtime - fellows like Scott Joplin - coming here in the early days," Giordano says. "You had the early jazz people like Louis Armstrong and James P. Johnson, the next generation of musicians - Benny Goodman and the Dorsey Brothers - they all came here to record, to be on the radio. The swing bands, the great bands up in Harlem, the bebop scene, everything came to New York. They all just sat down and had a feast."
The feast Giordano prepares every week takes hours of work. For example, he plans which pieces from his archive of 60,000 songs he'll feature.
Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
“You’ve got the musicians that have to know this language. This is a special language to play this music. It’s something you have to study and you have to listen and then speak on your instrument," he says. "Back in the 20s, 30s, 40s, it was easy because everyone was speaking that language. But a lot of water has passed under the bridge since those times."
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