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<DIV>I’ve been following this band since about 1981 or so. Whenever I get to NY,
I make it a point to go see them. If I lived in NY, I’d be there every
week.</DIV>
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<DIV>I am very happy that Vince and the band are finally getting the notice that
they should have gotten years ago. </DIV>
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<DIV>If and when any of you get to NY, be sure to go see Vince Giordano and the
Nighthawks. </DIV>
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<DIV>-Bob Ringwald</DIV>
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<DIV>Vince Giordano’s Musical Life Is Subject of Documentary</DIV>
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<DIV>by Glenn Gamboa</DIV>
<DIV>Newsday, January 12, 2017 </DIV>
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<DIV>Only Vince Giordano would proclaim himself the “King of Schlep,” dressed in
an elegant tuxedo as he lugs heavy instruments and equipment up equally elegant
stairs.</DIV>
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<DIV>The Smithtown native, recently inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of
Fame for leading the jazz band The Nighthawks and playing on the Oscar-nominated
score for the movie “Carol” last year, is that kind of character -- the stuff of
documentarians’ dreams.</DIV>
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<DIV>Filmmakers Dave Davidson and Amber Edwards recognized that immediately when
they met Giordano as they worked on an episode of the PBS series “Michael
Feinstein’s American Songbook.” They wanted the rest of the world to experience
meeting him too and that’s what happens in their new documentary “Vince
Giordano: There’s a Future in the Past,” which opens at Cinema Village in
Manhattan on Jan. 13.</DIV>
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<DIV>“His music is so thrilling, so infectious and addictive,” said Edwards, who
began following Giordano for the film in 2012. “In documentaries, you want to
start with a character who wants something. Vince is almost monomaniacal with
his passion. He says it’s his religion.”</DIV>
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<DIV>Throughout “There’s a Future in the Past,” Davidson and Edwards, who
directed and produced the film, show what Giordano goes through to keep his
beloved jazz from the 1920s alive, both by performing it every week with his
band The Nighthawks and by preserving it in the sheet music museum of sorts that
he has created in his Brooklyn home. However, it’s not all blue skies for
Giordano, even though his music has become part of films like “The Aviator” and
Woody Allen’s “Café Society” and was a regular on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” (A
band member jokes about Giordano’s life, “A day without chest pains is a day
without sunshine.”)</DIV>
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<DIV>“The story lies in the things that befall him as he works to keep the dream
alive,” said Davidson, whose most recent documentary, “A Gesture and a Word,”
about singer-songwriter Rob Morsberger, was released last year. “We weren’t sure
it was going to have a happy ending.”</DIV>
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<DIV>As much as “There’s a Future in the Past” is about Giordano’s music, it is
also about what life as a musician is actually like. “Many musicians have seen
this and almost to a person they say they are laughing and crying at the same
time,” Edwards said. “This is exactly the life. It’s tragic and comic at
the same time. It’s what happens when you’re trying to swim upstream and do
something different.” 30</DIV>
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K6YBV<BR><BR>Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting
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