HANDY, JOHN RICHARD

HANDY, JOHN RICHARD. Jazz saxophonist (3 February 1933 in Dallas, Texas). His family lived in Los Angeles, California, during the years 1943-44, moved back to Dallas, Texas, then settled in Los Angeles in 1949. Self-taught on the clarinet, he began to play the instrument when he was thirteen years old. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Dallas and Los Angeles; at City College of the City University of New York (1960), and at San Francisco...