The New Orleans Rhythm Kings (NORK) were one of the most influential jazz bands of the early to mid-1920s. The band included New Orleans and Chicago musicians who helped shape Chicago jazz and influenced many younger jazz musicians.
Orie Frank Trumbauer was an American jazz saxophonist of the 1920s and 1930s. His main instrument was the C melody saxophone, a now-uncommon instrument between an alto and tenor saxophone in size and pitch. He also played alto saxophone, bassoon, clarinet and several other instruments.
Newell "Spiegle" Willcox was a jazz trombonist. He was born Newell Lynn Willcox in upstate New York, and learned valve trombone as a youngster under the tuition of his father, Lynn Willcox, an amateur musician and bandleader. As a student of Manlius Military Academy, where he also played in the school brass band, he acquired the familiar nickname Spiegle, after one of the horses from the Academy's stables which, according to his fellow students, he apparently resembled!
A nighthawk is a nocturnal bird.
Riverwalk Jazz was a popular weekly public radio series distributed by Public Radio International that ran from 1989 to 2012.
Memphis Nighthawks were a traditional jazz band based in Champaign, Illinois during the 1970s.
Scott Robinson is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist. Robinson is best known for his work on multiple saxophones, but he has also performed on clarinet, alto clarinet, flute, trumpet, sarrusophone, and other, more obscure instruments.
Nighthawks Orchestra is a New York–based musical group, led by music historian Vince Giordano, that concentrates on recreations of the hot jazz and dance music styles of the period between 1919 and the mid-1930s.
Martin Oliver Grosz is an American jazz guitarist, banjoist, vocalist, and composer born in Berlin, Germany, the son of artist George Grosz. He performed with Bob Wilber and wrote arrangements for him. He has also worked with Kenny Davern, Dick Sudhalter, and Keith Ingham.
Joel Edward Helleny was an American jazz trombonist.
Peter Ecklund was an American jazz cornetist.
The Beau Hunks are a Dutch revivalist music ensemble who have performed and recorded the vintage works of composers Leroy Shield, Marvin Hatley, Raymond Scott, Edward MacDowell, Ferde Grofé, and others. They have been referred to as a "documentary orchestra", because they perform note-perfect renditions of music which is obscure and often commercially unavailable. For some projects for which no sheet music was known to exist, they had to reconstruct charts from original recordings extracted from films.
"The Japanese Sandman" is a song from 1920, composed by Richard A. Whiting and with lyrics by Raymond B. Egan. The song was first popularized in vaudeville by Nora Bayes, and then sold millions of copies as the B-side for Paul Whiteman's song "Whispering".
Catherine Russell is an American jazz and blues singer. She is best known for her 2016 album Harlem on My Mind.
Stewart Lerman is a Bronx born, New York–based, 2x Grammy winning music producer(3x nominated), recording engineer, who has worked with The Roches, Elvis Costello, Neko Case, Patti Smith, Antony and the Johnsons, Angelique Kidjo, Shawn Colvin, Julian Casablancas, Jules Shear, Marshall Crenshaw, Crash Test Dummies, Sharon Van Etten, Nellie McKay, Loudon Wainwright III, Black 47, David Johansen, David Byrne, Willie Nile, Charli XCX, Soulive, Darden Smith, Sophie B. Hawkins, Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent, Regina Spektor, Mumford and Sons, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Vince Giordano, Liza Minnelli, Dar Williams, Carl Hancock Rux and 58 episodes of Boardwalk Empire, 10 episodes of HBO's Viny.
He has also produced music for The Aviator, Revolutionary Road, Grey Gardens, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Mildred Pierce, Moonrise Kingdom, School of Rock, Bessie, The Knick, Begin Again among others, working with directors Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Frank Oz, Barry Levinson, Todd Haynes, John Carney, Woody Allen.
Boardwalk Empire Volume 1: Music from the HBO Original Series is a soundtrack for the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire, released in September 2011 through Elektra Records. The album reached a peak position of number eight on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart and earned the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.
Boardwalk Empire Volume 2: Music from the HBO Original Series is a soundtrack for the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire, released in September 2013.
Peter and Will Anderson are identical twin American jazz saxophonists and clarinetists, composers and arrangers, and leaders of their own trio and quintet.
Eddy Ray Davis was an American musician and bandleader of trad jazz, who was internationally known mainly through the decades of collaboration with the clarinetist and filmmaker Woody Allen.
I'd Rather Lead a Band is an album by Loudon Wainwright III, released in 2020. The album has songs by Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Rodgers and Hart, and Fats Waller.
