John Handy Quintet

John Handy is a renowned jazz saxophonist whose career has also encompassed composing classical music composition and exploration of multi-cultural music styles, especially from the Indian subcontinent. Handy, who has been strongly associated with San Francisco for most of his career, has played with jazz greats such as Charles Mingus, where he had the unenviable task of following Eric Dolphy in the alto "chair" during his second tenure with Mingus; He had a brief stint with Mingus in 1958 and 1959.