"Piano-playing lounge god Monty Banks"
Las
Vegas Mercury
January 17, 2002
"A genuine maestro of Northwest Lounge
Culture"
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"Monty Banks Takes Las Vegas"
..... Las Vegas Weekly - Cover - October 18, 2001
"Monty Banks does it his way"
.....Las Vegas
Weekly - Contents - October 18, 2001
"Monty
Banks is climbing the Strip ladder, playing Las Vegas old-style"
From "The World on a String "
by Molly Brown
Las
Vegas Weekly - October 18, 2001 (whole
article)
"Monty Banks... is one of the few performers in town deserving of the phrase,
'can't miss.' A breath of life from old Vegas....
Banks is like a straight shot back to the Rat Pack days, a Vegas lounge singer
who loves his audience and performing with class and style."
from "Up
& Coming:"
by James Kirchmer
The Stranger - Jan 3, 2002 (whole article)
"Lounge king Monty Banks started playing his
old-school-singer & ivory-tickler stylings around here back in '91, well
before the cocktail nation craze, and now finds himself mostly working down in
entertainment's vast holy land of Las Vegas. To those many Seattleites fortunate
enough to have celebrated life with Monty, it is surely of little surprise. The
man is made for the Strip."
"Monty carries himself with the ...
confidence found only among true professionals."
from "Authentic lounge: Bandleader attracts fans of all ages with
his distinctive old-school beat "
by Josh Ellis
The Las Vegas
Mercury - Jan 3, 2002 (whole article)
"Monty has the mark of a great entertainer: He actually pays
attention to what the songs are about. When he plays them, you get everything
the writer intended. Monty's not histrionic about it or anything, but there's a
force and a presence there. A lot of other Vegas acts would do well to pay
attention. "
from "Our night at the Bootlegger"
by Dayvid Figler
Las
Vegas Mercury - January 17, 2002 (whole article)
"Piano-playing lounge god Monty
Banks"
Avante garde lounge humorist Dayvid Figler "makes the lounge scene" at The Bootlegger, along with Monty Banks, renowned master lounge singer Sonny King, Monty's Angel Rebecca Zisch (curator emeritus of the Liberace Museum), Royal Crown Review drummer Daniel Glass, song sensation Lauri Perri (she started as a singer in the Mary Kaye Trio, now she's Leutenant Governor Lorrain Hunt), her brilliant husband pianist/comic Blackie Hunt, and Nevada Governor Genny Guinn.
from Livin' the High Life with Monty Banks
By Armand Nex
Organ and Bongos Magazine - Issue #8 (whole article)
"A genuine maestro of Northwest Lounge
Culture--keyboard player and song stylist, Mr. Monty
Banks..."
"in the front seat of the Lounge Culture
limousine cruising toward the new millennium..."
"Monty Banks and his
showgirls did the scene proud"
Rock Chick on the Double Down Anniversary
Las Vegas Weekly -
Dec 10, 2001
"It doesn't get any more old school
Vegas than this..."
Geoff Carter on Club Venus
vegas.com - Oct. 3,
2001
"Lounge kings Monty Banks & the High
Rollers..."
By Jeff Inman
vegas.com - June 14, 2001
"Lounge favorite Monty Banks tinkling on the keys, this is a most
professional party band."
Grant Cogswell
The Stranger - May 24, 2001
"Rat Pack inspired"
W. Clark Humphrey
Seattle Magazine - "What's Hot" in Seattle -
June 1999
"The Showbox Music Club grooved to the
big-band-era sounds of Seattle's Monty Banks and the High Rollers"
by
Justino Aguila
The Seattle Times - June 7, 1998
"Monty Banks, one of the most frequently performing pianists and
singers around, plays some of my favorite tunes... He has front-line experience
with the increasing popularity of the "swing scene" in Seattle."
Erika
Jacobs
Swaank Magazine - Spring, 1987
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