Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past
Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past

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A feature-length documentary about musician, scholar and bandleader Vince Giordano who, with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, has doggedly kept alive the popular music of the 1920s and '30s for the past forty years. Through Vince's story, the viewer will be immersed in the Hot Jazz and Swing that fueled Prohibition high-jinx and cheered up Depression-era America. And they will see what it takes to make a life as a professional jazz musician in 21st Century New York. Giordan... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past:

Vince Giordano
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A feature-length documentary about musician, scholar and bandleader Vince Giordano who, with his 11-member band The Nighthawks, has doggedly kept alive the popular music of the 1920s and '30s for the past forty years. Through Vince's story, the viewer will be immersed in the Hot Jazz and Swing that fueled Prohibition high-jinx and cheered up Depression-era America. And they will see what it takes to make a life as a professional jazz musician in 21st Century New York. Giordano's dedication, along with a handful of others, has kept this cultural phenomenon on life support through hard times, and introduced it to a new generation of Hot Jazz devotees and virtuosos who are laying claim to this joyful, energetic music.

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Los Angeles Times - 9/10 by Noel MurrayBy showing the exhausting diligence that goes into moments of pure transcendent joy onstage, this doc should make new fans for Giordano’s living museum.
The New York Times - 8/10 by Stephen HoldenThis movie, directed and produced by Dave Davidson and Amber Edwards, digs deeply enough into Mr. Giordano’s world to convey the drudgery and headaches of being a bandleader.
The Hollywood Reporter - 8/10 by Sheri LindenThe directors never lose sight of the struggles and the hard work that go along with his calling.
Village Voice - 7/10 by Alan ScherstuhlWhen the Nighthawks light into an arrangement, they're not aping a record you could spin or download at home — they're attempting to discover what it might have been like to hear those bands of back then blowing the doors off a joint.
User Review - 10/10 by swingJust saw this. If you love hot jazz, are a dancer, or just want to see what it takes to be a crazy Big band bandleader, check out this excellent documentary on Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks. See it Sunday at 7 or 9pm and Vince and the producers will there for a Q & A. Also showing in NYC until Thurs, but no Q&A after Sunday. Such a well done movie showing the NYC Icon who's music has provided legitimacy to Scorese's Aviator, Woody Allen's movies, Boardwalk Empire, Mildred Pierce and many more. It's an amazing story. Love the parts at the Newport Jazz Festival, the Louie Armstrong house, his appearance on Pairie Home Companion, as well as the first NEW York Hot Jazz Festival.

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