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Born in Oakland, CA, as a music-hungry youngster, Craig Handy experimented on guitar, trombone, and piano before settling on his first true love, the saxophone. At the age of 11 while listening to the radio, Handy fell under the spell of the transcendent saxophone playing of jazz legend Dexter Gordon. Berkeley High School’s (CA) reputable Jazz Program soon beckoned, and Handy joined the ranks of graduating stellar saxophone talent including David Murray, Peter Apfelbaum, and Joshua Redman, to name a few. He attended North Texas State University and won the coveted Charlie Parker Scholarship which enabled his early college experience as a psychology major and frontrunner in the school’s exceptional One O’ Clock Jazz Ensemble. His distinctive sound and authentic instrumental prowess were redoubtable traits immediately noticed by artists of stature, especially those committed to nurturing new talent on the bandstand and road
Kuon Ganjo (Time Without Beginning)
By Mike Clark
Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: East Broadway Rundown; Austin City Shuffle; Eddy and Hyde; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Lungs; Toys; Kuon Ganjo; Monk's Dream; Beauty and the Beast
Kuon Ganjo
By Mike Clark
Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: East Broadway Rundown; Austin City Shuffle; Eddy and Hyde; Softly as in a
Morning Sunrise; Lungs; Toys; Kuon Ganjo; Monk’s Dream; Beauty and the Beast.
Another Kind of Bird
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Donna Lee; Anthropology; Little Suede Shoes; Ah-Leu-Cha; Embraceable You;
Now’s the Time; Moose the Mooche; Yardbird Suite; Segment; Au Privave.
Mike Clark: Kuon Ganjo
by Jack Bowers
Not much is really new on veteran drummer Mike Clark's 2026 album, Kuon Ganjo (Time Without Beginning), which encompasses a series of nine hard-bop themes performed by Clark's able quintet. Having said that, the most reasonable question is, do they do it well? And the answer to that is an unequivocal yes. Clark, who ...
Richard Baratta: Another Kind of Bird
by Pierre Giroux
Charlie Parker's music has withstood every conceivable tribute. It has been copied, analyzed, celebrated, and occasionally embalmed by its own importance. Imagine the surprise at the release of drummer-percussionist Richard Baratta's Another Kind of Bird, which is not another museum-piece salute to Bird. Baratta and pianist-arranger Bill O'Connell treat Parker's compositions as living, breathing works capable ...
Richard Baratta: Another Kind of Bird
by Jack Bowers
Even today, more than seventy years after his death at the young age of thirty-four, the legendary alto saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird" Parker remains incomparable, as a player and composer who almost singlehandedly changed the vocabulary of jazz, introducing revisions and concepts that have never worn thin or gone out of style. Simply put, no one had ...
Mike Clark and Phil Haynes: Keep Beating The Drum(s)
by Doug Collette
A great drummer is the driving force of any band's performances, whether on stage or in the studio. So, is it any surprise that jazz ensembles led by drummers invariably evince strong collective personalities, even if the members of those groups are as self-motivated and inner-directed as their leader(s)? Each of these bands, led by Mike ...
Itai Doshin
By Mike Clark
Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Epistrophy; Cherokee; Mganga; I Shot the Sheriff; Inside Zone; Savant Clark; Yakani's Dance;
Midori; Epistrophy II.
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