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Nancie Banks Orchestra

Nancie Banks Orchestra: Out of It

by Jack Bowers
April 17, 2006

Out of It, recorded in January 2001, is the fourth--and I'm unhappy to report, the last--album by the New York-based Nancie Banks Orchestra. Banks died less than two years later, in November '02, at the too-young age of fifty-one. Her husband, trombonist Clarence Banks, is in the section on this album, as he was on the ...

Out of It

By Nancie Banks Orchestra

Label: GFI Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Viva Bird!; Vicksville; All of Me; Out of It/Still out of It; Chelsea Bridge/Victoria; Greetings and Salutations; Shiny Stockings; That Ain't Right; Bebop

Nancie Banks Orchestra: Out of It

by Dave Nathan
June 1, 2001

Each Nancie Banks Orchestra album seems to come with an unconditional guarantee that the listener will be treated to creative and compelling charts played by a dynamic big band. The group's 4th album, Out of It, is one of those satisfaction guaranteed albums. There's a new wrinkle with this latest effort with Cecil Bridgewater conducting, arranging ...

Ear Candy

By Nancie Banks Orchestra

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Released: 2000

Nancie Banks Orchestra: Ear Candy

by Dave Nathan
September 1, 2000

The tone is set for Nancie's Bank's third album by an opening six second exclamation, “Bird Lives!", by eight year old Jaclyn Barrero. The album features several cuts associated with notable practitioners (and in one case one the inventors) of Be-Bop, e.g., Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. This is not to imply that the ...