There is more than one artist with this name: 1. A German jazz act. 2. A New York based Underground Hip-Hop group with Cage and Camu Tao. They produced only one self-titled album. Camu Tao has since passed away. The Nighthawks are named after the Sylvester Stalone and Billy Dee Williams movie featuring a white and black cop team. The Nighthawks album is a concept album about a white and black partnership of some really corrupt cops. 3. "The Nighthawks" are a blues and roots music band based in Washington, DC.