But for saxophone player and clarinetist Daniel Levinson, as with many of the other 10 Nighthawks, this music is modern enough.
“It doesn’t feel like nostalgia. When I hear this music, it feels natural to me and I forget that this music is 80, 90 years old. Playing this music is absolutely mesmerizing."
Romance is alive and well at Sofia’s. In a dimly lit booth near the bandstand, Sandy Sacheroff snuggles up to Bob Stichman, her longtime boyfriend, who's nearly old enough to remember when this music was new.
Sandy Sacheroff snuggles up to boyfriend Bob Stichman as they listen to Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks.
"A lot of young people, they don’t know this kind of music," Stichman says. "If more of them were introduced to this kind of music, I think they’d love it."
Sacheroff agrees. "The music is from the heart. It's so wonderful."
"And the dancing is marvelous," Stichman adds.
In fact, to judge by their perfect Charleston, lindy hop and jitterbug moves on the dance floor, many young - or at least young-ish - people have discovered this world.
You can tell by the look of concentration and joy in the faces of Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks as they plunge into another number, it’s a world they plan to inhabit for decades to come.
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