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Bringing Big Band Jazz Back to the Theater District
There you are, texting away as you walk down West 46th Street in Midtown, and you nearly bump right into the big, bright gramophone on the sidewalk outside the Hotel Edison.
The antique prop is put out on Mondays to mark the entrance to Club Cache in the hotels basement. There, the clock is turned back to the Jazz Age, courtesy of Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, a time machine powered by 11 rhythmically inclined men in tuxedos.
For decades, the group has been playing the dance band music of the 20s and 30s, really the last regularly working big band of its kind in New York. He and the Nighthawks started in this space, under Sofias Restaurant at the hotel, a year and a half ago.
The antique prop is put out on Mondays to mark the entrance to Club Cache in the hotels basement. There, the clock is turned back to the Jazz Age, courtesy of Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, a time machine powered by 11 rhythmically inclined men in tuxedos.
For decades, the group has been playing the dance band music of the 20s and 30s, really the last regularly working big band of its kind in New York. He and the Nighthawks started in this space, under Sofias Restaurant at the hotel, a year and a half ago.
