[Dixielandjazz] Vince Giordano interviewed

[Robert Ringwald]

Vince Giordano: The Fresh Air Interview
NPR, November 6, 2013
If you love jazz and pop from the 1920s and '30s, you might already love the HBO
series "Boardwalk Empire," set in Atlantic City during Prohibition. The music played
throughout the show is performed by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, and a second
album of music from the series was recently released. It features the band performing
instrumentals, plus vocal tracks with singers not associated with music of the '20s,
like Patti Smith, Elvis Costello and Neko Case.
Giordano says he's been obsessed with music from the Prohibition era since he was
a child, having discovered it on a Victrola at his grandparents' house. "The sound
that was coming out of that old machine and the whole feel and the whole nuance,
it just hit me," Giordano tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
He's since become the go-to guy for music of that period. His band performed music
in Francis Ford Coppola's film "The Cotton Club" and in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator."
Giordano worked with Dick Hyman's Orchestra in several Woody Allen soundtracks, and
he played the role of a bass player in Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown."
46-minute segment:
http://www.npr.org/2013/11/06/243483782


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