Craig Mitchell Handy (born September 25, 1962) is an American tenor saxophonist.
Born in
Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...
, he attended
North Texas State University
The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public university, public research university located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Its main campus is in Denton, Texas, Denton, with a satellite campus in Frisco, Texas, Frisco. It serves as the ...
from 1981 to 1984, and following this played with
Art Blakey
Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...
,
Wynton Marsalis,
Roy Haynes,
Abdullah Ibrahim,
Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. Most famously a member of John Coltrane's quartet, with whom he recorded from late 1960 to late 1965, Jones appeared on such albums as ''My Fa ...
,
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and very occasional flute player. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day an ...
,
Betty Carter
Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative inter ...
,
George Adams,
Ray Drummond,
Conrad Herwig,
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater (née Denise Garrett, May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer and actress. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress. For 23 years, she was the host of National ...
, and
David Weiss among many others. He is a member of the
Mingus Big Band,
Mingus Dynasty, and Mingus Orchestra.
Handy plays the role of
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Yanow, Scot"Coleman Hawkins: Artist Biography" AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2013. One of the first ...
in the 1996 film ''
Kansas City
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''. He is credited for performing the ''
Cosby Show'' season 6 theme.
Discography
As leader
As sideman
With
Cecil Brooks III
Cecil Brooks III (born 1959) is an American jazz drummer and record producer who has worked with Arthur Blythe, Russell Gunn, John Hicks, Andrew Hill, Etta Jones, Roseanna Vitro, Hannibal Lokumbe, and Jimmy Ponder.
A native of the Homewood n ...
*''
Hangin' with Smooth'' (
Muse
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, 1990)
With
George Cables
George Andrew Cables (born November 14, 1944) is an American jazz pianist and composer.
Early life
Cables was born in New York City, United States. He was initially taught piano by his mother. He then studied at the High School of Performing Art ...
*''
The George Cables Songbook'' (HighNote, 2016)
With
Betty Carter
Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative inter ...
*''
Droppin' Things'' (
Verve, 1990)
With
The Cookers
*''Warriors'' (
Jazz Legacy Productions, 2010)
*''
Cast the First Stone'' (
Plus Loin, 2011)
*''
Believe'' (
Motema Music, 2012)
With
Ray Drummond
*''
Excursion
An excursion is a trip, usually made for leisure, education, or Physical exercise, physical purposes. It is often an adjunct to a longer journey or visit to a place, sometimes for other (typically work-related) purposes.
Public transportatio ...
'' (Arabesque, 1993)
*''
1-2-3-4'' (Arabesque, 1997
999
With
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and very occasional flute player. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day an ...
*''
Big Band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and ...
'' (Verve, 1997)
With
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He played bebop, hard bop, and post-bop styles from the early 1960s onwards. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives fo ...
*''
New Colors'' (Hip Bop Essence, 2001)
*''
On the Real Side'' (Times Square, 2008)
With
Bobby Hutcherson
Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. "Little B's Poem", from the 1966 Blue Note Records, Blue Note album ''Components (album), Components'', is one of his best-known composi ...
*''
Acoustic Masters II'' (
Atlantic
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, 1994)
With
Abdullah Ibrahim
*''
Mindif'' (
Enja, 1988)
With
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz Double bass, upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent of collective Musical improvisation, improvisation, he is considered one of ...
*''
Epitaph
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'' (
Columbia, 1990)
With
Ralph Peterson
*''
ALIVE At Firehouse 12 Vol. 1—The Unity Project'' (
Onyx, 2013)
With
John Scofield
John Scofield (born December 26, 1951) is an American guitarist and composer. His music over a long career has blended jazz, jazz fusion, funk, blues, soul and rock. He first came to mainstream attention as part of the band of Miles Davis; he ...
*''
Up All Night'' (Verve, 2003)
With
Charles Sullivan
*''
Kamau'' (Arabesque, 1995)
With
Charles Tolliver
*''
With Love With Love may refer to:
Music Albums
* '' ...with Love'', by Mary Byrne
* ''With Love'' (Amanda Lear album), 2006
* ''With Love'' (Bobby Vinton album), 1974
* ''With Love'' (Charles Tolliver album), 2006
* '' With Love, Chér'', 1967
* ''Wi ...
'' (Blue Note, 2006)
With
Jack Walrath
Jack Arthur Walrath (born May 5, 1946) is an American post-bop jazz trumpeter and musical arranger known for his work with Ray Charles, Gary Peacock, Charles Mingus, and Glenn Ferris, among others.
Biography
Walrath was born in Stuart, Florida. ...
*''
Journey, Man!'' (
Evidence
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, 1995)
References
Further reading
* ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians,'' Ninth edition, edited by Laura Diane Kuhn (born 1953),
Schirmer Books, New York (2001),
* ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,'' Second edition, Three volumes, edited by Barry Dean Kernfeld (born 1950),
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the United Kingdom and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the United States) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be on ...
, London (2002),
External links
Official website
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American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
African-American jazz musicians
Jazz musicians from California
Living people
1962 births
University of North Texas College of Music alumni
Arabesque Records artists
21st-century American saxophonists
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Mingus Big Band members
Mingus Dynasty (band) members
The New Jazz Composers Octet members
Okeh Records artists
21st-century African-American musicians
20th-century African-American musicians