Clarence Banks

Trombonist Clarence Banks Jr is a native of Englewood, New Jersey and majored in Music Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. He began performing professionally in 1976. His long career has seen him performing with artist including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, The Temptations and the Mighty Sparrow. In 1984 he joined the Count Basie Orchestra where he has recorded numerous albums. Other recording credits include Slide Hampton’s World of Trombones, Kid Creole and Tom Waits. Banks was cast as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra in Francis Ford Coppola’s film “The Cotton Club”.