Buddy Banks (Saxophonist)

Ulysses "Buddy" Banks ( born October 3, 1909 in Dallas, † September 7, 1991 in Desert Hot Springs, California ) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues tenor saxophonist and singer.

"Buddy" Banks came from Texas and played at the beginning of his career in the 1930s in local territory bands, as in Charlie Echols ' Band 1933/34; in this band also played Jack McVea. Then Banks played in 1937 at Claude Kennedy, whose orchestra was later acquired by Cee Pee Johnson. Around 1945 Banks was in his game greatly from Illinois Jacquet and Herschel Evans influenced also by Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. In the second half of the 1940s Banks took some rhythm and blues pieces on under his own name, in which Banks could also be heard as a singer; this 78s emerged for small labels such as Sterling, Juke Box (later Specialty), Excelsior, Melodisc, Modern, King and Specialty. The song " Voo -it, Voo -it" then reached # 4 R & B charts; The song was then was covered by Helen Humes. After 1953 Buddy Banks disappeared from the music business.

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• Jazz saxophonist
• R & B singer
• R & B saxophonist
• American musician
• Born in 1909
• Died in 1991
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