Gianni Valenti Photo

From: Photos: Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks 'The Future is In Our Past' at Birdland

You don’t have to knock on the door and identify yourself to the bouncer looking through the peephole by saying “Joe sent me” the way revelers did during prohibition.  That was how to gain entry to the nightclubs of the day serving alcohol and jazz music during the 1920’s.