[78-L] A Night on the Town

[simmonssomer]

I'm glad you posted this Cary because now I know that we can afford to go 
again. The tarriff sounds very reasonable. We went almost every week at the 
last joint they played (The Cajun)  but I had heard that this new spot was 
costly. At $30 it is very do-able especially for NYC.
I agree..it is a great, great band and not to be missed.

Al Simmons

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Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:50 PM
Subject: [78-L] A Night on the Town


> Spending a week on business in the Big Apple and went to Club Cache to see 
> Vince Giordano's Nighthawks. Anyone who is in the city on a Monday evening 
> HAS to see this band play. I knew they were good, but seeing and hearing 
> them live is a totally different experience. The band plays the original 
> charts from the '20s - everyone knows that - but they also use period 
> instruments, including things like Andy Stein's phono-fiddle (a violin 
> with a horn attached to it; supposedly used when recording acoustically 
> pre-1925). Vince even uses a restored microphone from the era. The band 
> not only played written charts, but cut loose on songs like "Diga Diga 
> Doo" and "China Boy," which had the joint jumping. Also in the band were 
> such folks as Randy Sandke and Dan Levinson (I didn't get the entire 
> lineup, but the band, which numbered 12-14, was terrific).
>
> Vince introduced a variety of celebrities in the audience, including 
> Michael Feinstein, jazz photo maven Frank Driggs, actress Sondra Lee (the 
> original Tiger Lily from "Peter Pan"), WFUV's Rich Conaty, and good old 
> Sol Yaged, who played a couple of tunes on clarinet ("Memories of You" was 
> one). At 86, Sol can still play (he taught Steve Allen how to play 
> clarinet for "The Benny Goodman Story").
>
> Vince and his buddies did 3 sets; 3 hours of music for just a $15 cover 
> plus a $15 minimum for dinner and or drinks. I had a fabulous chicken 
> marsala, priced at $16.95, which is not bad, considering we were only a 
> block off of Times Square.
>
> If you wanna hear hot jazz the way it sounded in the speakeasies in the 
> '20s, this is it! We ain't got nothin' like this in L.A.
>
> Cary Ginell
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