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| Vince Giordano (Mayo) |
This promises to be a blast to the big band past with Vince Giordano and his band The Nighthawks, renowned on the New York scene for their commitment to preserving and authentically presenting 1920s and ’30s jazz and popular music.
In 30 years as a bandleader, Vince Giordano has focused on recreating the sounds of 1920s and '30s jazz and popular music. "I just love the energy of the early jazz," says Giordano, 54. "I wanted to recapture some of that." Giordano has developed his expertise on the saxophone, bass, and tuba, but he is best known as leader of the vintage band the Nighthawks, and his authentic realizations of earlier jazz performance styles.
In 1976 Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks (originally known as the New Orleans Nighthawks) was formed. His band has been booked for black tie galas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Waldorf Astoria, the Rainbow Room and many private parties. Vince has also been invited to perform at the Smithsonian, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Jazz Festivals around the world.
"Early appearances with Leon Redbone and on the Prairie Home Companion and lending his talents to Francis Ford Coppola's film The Cotton Club, led to working with Dick Hyman's Orchestra in half a dozen Woody Allen soundtracks then as a bass player in Sean Penn's band in Woody's Sweet and Lowdown. He and band were featured in Gus Van Sant's film Finding Forrester, in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, Robert DeNiro's The Good Shepherd and most recently in Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road."
Other recording projects include soundtracks for HBO’s—Grey Gardens and Martin Scorsese’s Boardwalk Empire. Also a big-band historian and collector, Giordano has more than 60,000 scores in his collection.
Mayo Performing Arts Center is located at 100 South Street in Morristown, NJ 07960. The Box Office: 973-539-8008.
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