{{Short description|American keyboardist and accordionist}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Charles Giordano | image = Charles Giordano (7479360304).jpg | caption = Charles Giordano at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival | image_size = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|10|13}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | origin = | occupation = Musician | genre = {{flatlist| *Rock *blues *folk}} | instrument = {{flatlist| *Keyboards *accordion}} | years_active = 1982–present | associated_acts = {{flatlist| *Bruce Springsteen *E Street Band *The Sessions Band *Pat Benatar}} }}
'''Charles Giordano''' (born October 13, 1954) is an American keyboardist and accordionist.<ref name="godo"/> Giordano is known primarily for his work with Bruce Springsteen as a member of the E Street Band,<ref name="godo">{{cite web | url=http://bands.goanddomichigan.com/reviews/review.asp?ID=29 | title=Bruce Springsteen Takes Fans on a Different Kind of "Carnival Ride" | author=Gary Graff | author-link=Gary Graff | publisher=Oakland Press | year=2006 | access-date=2007-11-25 | archive-date=2012-02-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209132616/http://bands.goanddomichigan.com/reviews/review.asp?ID=29 | url-status=dead }}</ref> replacing Danny Federici as the band's organist following the latter's serious illness and death in 2008 and as a member of Springsteen's The Sessions Band. He is also known for playing keyboards with Pat Benatar in the 1980s.<ref name="godo"/><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/11/e_streeter_federici_to_be_trea.html | title=E Streeter Federici to be treated for melanoma | author=Jay Lustig | publisher=Newark Star-Ledger | date=2007-11-21 | access-date=2007-11-25}}</ref>
Giordano also played with The Bacon Brothers, for a number of years.
With Benatar he was usually billed as '''Charlie Giordano''' and played for five albums, beginning in 1983;<ref name="bb83">{{cite news | url=http://members.tripod.com/~NTGfan/nervous.html | title=Pat Benatar / Red Rider | publisher=Billboard | date=1983-04-09 | access-date=2007-11-25}}</ref> his role in the band was praised by ''Billboard'' magazine.<ref name="bb83"/> With Benatar he was identifiable by his glasses and distinctive array of berets, blazers and 1980s-style ties. Giordano also was a member of The David Johansen Group and went on to perform with Buster Poindexter and The Banshees of Blue.
As a session musician Giordano's playing has included Madeleine Peyroux's 1996 album ''Dreamland'' and Bucky Pizzarelli's 2000 album ''Italian Intermezzo''; the latter's mix of opera, Italian folk, and swing presaged his appearance in the similarly genre-mashing Sessions Band Tour with Springsteen. Giordano also participated in a 2002 revival of garage rock band ? and the Mysterians. In 2008, he accompanied British singer Barb Jungr for a short stand in a New York City cabaret.
==Tours with Bruce Springsteen== *Seeger Sessions Tour with the Sessions Band (2006) *Magic Tour with the E Street Band (2007–2008) *Working On A Dream Tour with the E Street Band (2009) *Wrecking Ball Tour with the E Street Band (2012–2013) *High Hopes Tour with the E Street Band (2014) *The River Tour 2016–Summer '17 with the E Street Band (2016–17) *Springsteen and E Street Band 2023 Tour with the E Street Band (2023-24)
==Discography== '''With James Carter''' *''Chasin' the Gypsy'' (Atlantic, 2000)
'''With Bruce Springsteen''' *''We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions'' (2006) *''Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin'' (2007) *''Magic Tour Highlights'' (2008) *''London Calling: Live in Hyde Park'' (2010) *''Live from the Carousel'' (2011) *''Wrecking Ball'' (2012) *''High Hopes'' (2014) *''''American Beauty'''' (2014) *''Western Stars'' (2019) *''Western Stars: Songs From The Film'' (2019) *''Letter to You'' (2020)
'''With Pat Benatar''' *''Get Nervous'' (1982) *''Live from Earth'' (1983) *''Tropico'' (1984) *''Seven the Hard Way'' (1985) *''Wide Awake in Dreamland'' (1988) *''True Love'' (1991)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Giordano, Charles}} Category:1954 births Category:Musicians from Brooklyn Category:Living people Category:American people of Italian descent Category:E Street Band members Category:20th-century American keyboardists Category:American male organists Category:21st-century American accordionists Category:21st-century American keyboardists Category:21st-century American organists Category:The Sessions Band members