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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Vince Giordano: There's a Future in the Past
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Dinah
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Black Beauty
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I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise
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Sugar Foot Stomp
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Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
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Singing Pretty Songs
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You Don't Know What You're Doing
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It's Got Me Again
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Oh Eddie
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Besame Mucho
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Drop Me Off in Harlem
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One More Time
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Shake That Thing
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Charlie 'Papa' Jackson:
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Smile When the Raindrops Fall
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Birdland
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Joe Zawinul:
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Violin Sonata #1
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The Mooch
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There'll Be Some Changes Made
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Billy Higgins:
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Keeping Out of Mischief Now
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Cotton Club Stomp
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Clarinet Marmalade
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Tiger Rag
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Of All the Wrongs You've to Me
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Destructive Worries
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The Moon and You
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Bolero
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Tishomingo Blues
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Sweet Man
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Livery Stable Blues
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Rhapsody in Blue
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Hot Club Stomp
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Log Cabin Blues
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Stampede
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Linger Awhile
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Public Melody Number One
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Jazznocracy
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Puttin' On the Ritz
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Everybody Loves My Baby
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