Paul Banks (jazz pianist)

Paul Banks was an American jazz pianist,[1] bandleader, composer and lyricist.

In September 1923, Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra recorded four of Banks's compositions for OKeh Records.[2]

Based in Kansas City in the mid-1920s, Banks's bands were contemporaneous with those of the more successful Bennie Moten,[3] and several of the musicians in Banks's bands would move on to join Moten. Considered to have a "sweeter sound",[1] Banks's band was more popular with the white downtown audiences.[1] According to the Kansas City Call,[1] at a November 1926 "battle of the bands" at the Newman Theater, Banks's and Moten's bands "played to equal honors".[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e Driggs, Frank; Haddix, Chuck (2005). Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop-A History. Oxford University Press. pp. 41, 53, 55, 93. ISBN 978-0-19-536435-4.
  2. ^ Discography of American Historical Recordings. "Banks, Paul". University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
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