Larry Banks

Larry Banks is a jazz drummer based in New York. Before moving to the city in 1984, he played with saxophonist Von Freeman in Chicago, and he went on to tour Europe and Japan as a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra in the mid 1980s. He has worked with artists including Steve Grossman, Art Taylor, Jon Hendricks, Stanley Turrentine, and Shirley Horn, and he leads his own groups, among them the G.I.G. Quintet, at Smalls Jazz Club.