Nighthawks Orchestra
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Nighthawks Orchestra is a New York
-based musical group, led by music historian Vince Giordano
, that concentrates on recreations of the hot jazz and dance music styles of the period between 1919 and the mid-1930s.
Recordings by the Nighthawks Orchestra have been featured in many television shows, radio broadcasts, and movies. Film scores that include the Nighthawks include The Aviator (2004) as well as pictures directed by Woody Allen
.
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
-based musical group, led by music historian Vince Giordano
Vince Giordano
Vince Giordano is a musician, arranger, and leader of the New York-based Nighthawks Orchestra. Giordano specializes in the jazz styles of the 1920s and early 1930s. Giordano and the Nighthawks have contributed to a number of films and he is especially noted for orchestrations featured in the...
, that concentrates on recreations of the hot jazz and dance music styles of the period between 1919 and the mid-1930s.
Recordings by the Nighthawks Orchestra have been featured in many television shows, radio broadcasts, and movies. Film scores that include the Nighthawks include The Aviator (2004) as well as pictures directed by Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
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External links
- Webster Records http://www.jazzbymail.com/ViewArtist.aspx?iAID=1049&sPC=1049_1667&sAN=Vince+Giordano
- Review in Show Business Weekly http://www.showbusinessweekly.com/archive/282/nyc_live.shtml
- Resource Entertainment Group http://www.regnantucket.com/artists/nighthawks/