New York big-band leader Vince Giordano talks to Atlantic City Weekly about working on HBO's Boardwalk Empire and its GRAMMY-nominated soundtrack.
Yep the tuba, all that stuff. You think, 'eh.' But I just always had this dream of getting this music out to more people and I guess with Boardwalk Empire the dream is becoming a reality.
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'The whole world now will start listening and really finding out how great the music of the 1920s is. It brings it up to the forefront.'
"Eddie lived in a kind of musically optimistic 1920s place even though he had a shitty childhood. His parents died when he was young but his grandmother raised him and he was little and scrawny so he got beaten up a lot. He learned to make jokes so he could avoid getting beaten up, so from then on he realized this singing and dancing thing could work."
"When I recorded the first two songs I got to record with the band, which I prefer — in the same room, we did it live. Coming from a musical theater background, I prefer to sing live because there's just this synergy when you have a band playing behind you."
“It’s been my love and passion ever since I was five years old and I think this music moves people. People who come to see us, they say, ‘When I got here I was in kind of a blah mood, not so good, or depressed, or whatever and I come out in just a whole different place. I’m laughing, my spirits are lifted, it’s cheaper than going to a psychiatrist!’”
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1. vince giordano said... on Feb 9, 2012 at 07:20PM
“A wonderful article ! Just once correction..the band leader mentioned who originally had the straight baritone sax is: Benny Meroff.”
2. Noel Brookside said... on Feb 10, 2012 at 03:42PM
“Perhaps you could correct Vince's last name in the headline; it's Giordano.”