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• Find album release information for Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival - John Handy on AllMusic10/

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• "At Monterey, before an arena packed with people sitting in the blazing sun, John Handy turned the band loose (guitarist Jerry Hahn had replaced Freddie Redd by then) and broke it up. They played two numbers, the performances in this album- and they were the hit of the Festival.

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• Handy led his own bands during , and played with Mingus at the Monterey Jazz Festival, but it was at the following year's festival that he was a major hit, stretching out with his quintet (which included violinist Michael White and guitarist Jerry Hahn) on two long originals.

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• His son, John Richard Handy IV, is a drummer who has played with Handy on occasion. Discography As leader. In the Vernacular (Roulette, ) No Coast Jazz (Roulette, ) Jazz (Roulette, ) Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival (Columbia, ) The 2nd John Handy Album (Columbia, ) New View (Columbia, ) Projections (Columbia.

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• May 16,  · At Monterey in , before an arena packed with people sitting in the blazing sun, Jazz saxist John Handy turned his band loose and they broke it up. They played two numbers, the performances in this album, and they were the hit of the Festival. People gave Handy a standing ovation and talked about what they had heard for weeks/5(5).

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• John Handy Read more about this and other GRAMMYs news at classical.chartgenie.netinfo Skip to main content Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Group Or Soloist With Group John Handy Recorded Live At The Monterey Jazz Festival (Album) Best Original Jazz Composition. If Only We Knew. Top. Recording Academy. About; Governance; Press Room; Jobs;.

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• Jazz (Roulette, ) Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival (Columbia, ) The 2nd John Handy Album (Columbia, ) New View (Columbia, ) Projections (Columbia, ) Karuna Supreme (MPS, ) with Ali Akbar Khan; Hard Work (Impulse!, ) Carnival (Impulse! ) Where Go the Boats (Warner Bros., ) Handy Dandy Man (Warner Bros., ).

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• Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival is a live album by saxophonist John Handy, recorded in and released in It is Handy's most famous album and his debut on Columbia. The original album only features two long instrumental pieces, notable for their "free form", a peculiar use of .

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