Photo Coverage: Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Play the Iguana

The dance music of the 20's and 30's is currently being featured at the IGUANA at 240 w 54th street. Grammy -winners Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks appear there every Monday & Tuesday from 8-11 PM.

They have played in New York nightclubs, appeared in films: "The Cotton Club", "The Aviator" and HBOs "Boardwalk Empire", and for concerts at Jazz At Lincoln Center and the Newport Jazz Festival. Born in Brooklyn, Giordano's passion for this music and the people that made it began at age 5. He has amassed an amazing collection of over 60,000 band arrangements, 1920's and 30's films, 78 recordings and jazz-age memorabilia. Giordano sought out and studied with important survivors from the period; Whiteman's hot arranger Bill Challis and drummer Chauncey Morehouse, and bassist Joe Tarto. Giordano's passion, commitment to authenticity, and knowledge led him to create a sensational band of like-minded players the Nighthawks. Vince Giordano has single handedly kept alive an amazing genre of American music that continues to spread the joy and pathos of an era that shaped our nation.

Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff