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2016 Blues Music Award Winner Billy Price first attracted national attention during his three-year association with guitarist Roy Buchanan. Price is the vocalist on two of Buchanan's LPs, That's What I'm Here For and Live Stock. Since then, with the Keystone Rhythm Band, the Billy Price Band, and solo projects, Billy Price has recorded and released a total of 16 albums, CDs, and DVDs. In April 2016, he was officially recognized and inducted as a Pittsburgh Rock ’n Roll Legend at an award ceremony.

Price’s album This Time for Real, with the late Chicago soul singer Otis Clay, received a 2016 Blues Music Award in the category of Best Soul Blues Album of 2015. A live recording of the Billy Price Band, Alive and Strange, was released in April 2017.

His latest album Reckoning, produced by Kid Andersen at Greaseland Studios, was released on June 15, 2018 by Vizztone Label Group.

The Pittsburgh-based Billy Price Band consists of Dave Dodd (drums), Tom Valentine (bass), Lenny Smith (guitar), Jim Britton (keyboards), Eric DeFade (sax), and Joe Herndon (trumpet).

The Billy Price Charm City Rhythm Band, based in Billy’s new hometown of Baltimore, MD, consists of El Torro Gamble (drums), Greg Haughey (bass), Pete Kanaras (guitar), Tam Sullivan (keyboards), Dan Gutwein (sax), and Vince McCool (trumpet).

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Album Review

The Nighthawks: Tryin' To Get To You

Read "Tryin' To Get To You" reviewed by Doug Collette


With Tryin' To Get To You, their thirty-first album in a prolific near fifty-year career, the Nighthawks provide testament to their own longevity and that of the blues genre itself. Even regular turnover of personnel has not diminished the power and efficacy of this group's playing, perhaps because, as new members come and go, founding member Mark Wenner on harmonica and vocals remains as staunch a linchpin as any veteran band could want. A baker's dozen tracks recorded ...

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Album Review

The Nighthawks: All You Gotta Do

Read "All You Gotta Do" reviewed by Doug Collette


On All You Gotta Do, The Nighthawks illustrate how they've established, then nurtured their vaunted status among the most venerated of American blues units for over four decades and upwards of twenty albums. The changes the band's seen under the tutelage of original founding member Mark Wenner continues unfettered on this self-produced album: the band alternately stretches itself outside the strict confines of the blues genre and brings an unusually broad range of material within its scope and style.

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Festival

Central Virginia Blues Festival Presents The Nighthawks, Gabe Stillman, Sol Roots And More

Central Virginia Blues Festival Presents The Nighthawks, Gabe Stillman, Sol Roots And More

Source: 9th Floor Music

The 5th Annual Central Virginia Blues Festival returns on Saturday, June 10th, 2023, with an outstanding lineup of powerful music, delicious food, cool refreshments, and a variety of vendors. The performing artists for 2023 showcase some the best in national and regional blues and roots talent. The Gabe Stillman Band is a three-piece machine that runs at full tilt for every performance. While their sound is unmistakably rooted in the blues, the band draws from the deep well of all ...

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Highlights In Jazz 44th Anniversary Gala with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center

Highlights In Jazz 44th Anniversary Gala with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz, New York’s longest running jazz concert series, proudly kicks off it 45th season at 8:00 PM on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center of Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, NYC with The Highlights In Jazz 44th Anniversary Gala featuring the swinging jazz and blues of Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks with vocalist Ms Vinnie Knight and the festive multi-dimensional music of Cynthia Sayer and her Joyride Band featuring ...

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Feinstein's Presensts a New Year's Eve Celebration with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks

Feinstein's Presensts a New Year's Eve Celebration with Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks

Source: Miller Wright & Associates

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed “Best of New York" by New York Magazine, and “an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, will celebrate New Year's Eve with VINCE GIORDANO AND THE NIGHTHAWKS in the Feinstein's at Loews Regency Ballroom. Recently featured on the acclaimed HBO program “Boardwalk Empire," Giordano will feature early jazz favorites from the 1920s and 30s. The evening includes a three-course dinner, dancing and open bar. The celebration takes place at the ...

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Performance / Tour

Good Old New York: Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks (August 30,2010)

Good Old New York: Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks (August 30,2010)

Source: Jazz Lives by Michael Steinman

n any Monday or Tuesday night, those who love jazz and pop — to listen and dance to—should make their way to Club Cache, in the basement of the Hotel Edison (221 West 46th Street), to catch Vince Gordano and the Nighthawks, playing from 8-11 PM.

I did just that last Monday.

The Nighthawks were Mike Ponella, trumpet; Harvey Tibbs, trombone; Dan Levinson, Dan Block, Mark Lopeman, reeds; Andy Stein, violin / baritone sax; Pater Yarin, piano; Ken Salvo,banjo / ...

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Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks at Iridium Tonight + Upcoming Dates

Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks at Iridium Tonight + Upcoming Dates

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/ SPECIAL SHOWTIMES-7:30PM & 9:30PM

Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks Feb 7th - The Nighthawks Feb 21 - Nighthawks March 7 - Nighthawks March 14 - Nighthawks March 21 - Nighthawks April 4 - Nighthawks April 18 - Nighthawks May ...

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Vince Giordano And The Nighthawks Wednesdays at The Iridium Jazz Club

Vince Giordano And The Nighthawks Wednesdays at The Iridium Jazz Club

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 www.iridiumjazzclub.com

VINCE GIORDANO AND THE NIGHTHAWKS Wednesdays: September 13, October 11, October 25, November 8, November 15, November 29, December 6, December 20 Set Times for Vince Giordano are 7:30PM & 9:30PM

The Iridium Jazz Club is pleased to present the 11-piece jazz-age big band Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks.

Vince and ...

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Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks at the Iridium Wednesday's July 5, 12, 19 sets at 8:30 and 10:30

Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks at the Iridium Wednesday's July 5, 12, 19 sets at 8:30 and 10:30

Source: All About Jazz

IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 Wednesday's In July July 5, 12, 19 VINCE GIORDANO AND THE NIGHTHAWKS The Iridium Jazz Club is pleased to present the 11-piece Jazz Age Big Band Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks. Vince & His Nighthawks will keep patrons at The Iridium entertained with swinging jazz music ...

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Singer Daryl Sherman and Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks Orchestra's holiday show The Park Avenue Whirl

Singer Daryl Sherman and Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks Orchestra's holiday show The Park Avenue Whirl

Source: All About Jazz

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) glitters during the month of December with the festive Holiday celebration The Park Avenue Whirl. The Park Avenue Whirl begins previews on Friday, December 16 for a limited engagement through Saturday, December 31.

Opening Night is Tuesday, December 20 at 8:00 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Saturday at 8:00 PM, and Sunday at 7:00 PM. Single tickets are $50 ($35 for 59E59 members) and are available by calling ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

All You Gotta Do

Eller Soul Records
2017

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