Chartwell Booksellers 'HOLIDAY TEA AT THREE' 12/13

To celebrate its 25th Anniversary as an independent bookstore, Chartwell Booksellers is delighted to announce the return of free music, dancing and refreshment at HOLIDAY TEA AT THREE for one afternoon only, December 13 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Chartwell Booksellers in the Park Avenue Plaza building, 55 East 52nd Street, between Park and Madison Avenues with music by Vince Giordano's Nighthawks. Admission is free. For more information, call (212) 308-0688.

For over ten years, from 1985-1997, Chartwell Booksellers celebrated HOLIDAY TEA AT THREE in the lobby of its midtown office tower-home, a series of Saturday afternoon tea dances presented throughout the month of December, with music provided by Vince Giordano's Nighthawks and other swinging big bands. Of course, tea was served, and everything was free.

Vince Giordano's Nighthawks

VINCE GIORDANO, in 30 years as a bandleader, has become the authority on recreating the sounds of 1920s and '30s jazz and popular music. Giordano and his big band, the Nighthawks, recorded a series of Depression-era hits for the soundtrack of Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, ripping through instrumentals and serving as the back-up band for singers like David Johansen and Rufus Wainwright. Early appearances on "A Prairie Home Companion" and in the movie The Cotton Club led to work in half-a-dozen Woody Allen films, including Sweet and Lowdown and Zelig. His diverse musical involvements also include backing up Madonna doing a striptease in Bloodhounds Of Broadway, and working with such varied institutions as the New York Philharmonic and Leon Redbone. While he doesn't call people "Pops" of wear vintage duds, Giordano is obsessive about musical authenticity in resurrecting heroes like Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson, and Jelly Roll Morton. The Nighthawks use period instruments and arrangements, and play solos transcribed from the original recordings.

The most popular band in the original series, Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks in fact inspired Chartwell Booksellers to initiate Holiday Tea at Three. Over the years, Holiday Tea at Three also featured The Buck Clayton Swing Band; Panama Francis & The Savoy Sultans; The Harlem Blues & Jazz Band; The Orphan Newsboys; The Jimmy Ryan All Stars; Robbie Scott's New Deal Orchestra; The Loren Schoenberg Big Band; and The Richard Sudhalter Big Band; and such star soloists as Doc Cheatham, Byron Stripling, Dan Barrett, Tess Marsalis and Frank Vignola.

About Chartwell Booksellers

Now celebrating it's 25th Anniversary, Chartwell Booksellers remains the only standing bookstore in the world devoted to the writings of Winston Churchill, featuring one of the finest inventories to be found anywhere of rare Churchill first editions, many of them signed, original letters, documents, Churchillian ephemera, and virtually every book ever written about Sir Winston Churchill. Chartwell regularly sponsors all manner of events on the subject of Winston Churchill, presenting luminaries ranging from Henry Kissinger to Rudolph Giuliani, official biographer Sir Martin Gilbert, the late-William Manchester, and many members of the Churchill family, including Winston Churchill's daughter, Lady Mary Soames, and his grandchildren, Winston Churchill and Celia and Edwina Sandys.

Chartwell Booksellers also boasts a number of additional specialties, including rare military books covering virtually every historical period, collectible photography books, automotive books, and fine literature in hardcover. The shop is a literary beacon in midtown Manhattan and one of New York City's most cherished independent bookstores.

 

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