Jazz Articles about Nancie Banks

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 previous three. Ironically, Out of It is dedicated to the memory of several friends who had passed on, including saxophonist Harold Vick, who composed ...