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Craig Handy at Hen And Chicken

Where

Hen And Chicken
210 North Street, Southville
Bristol
Map
0117 966 3143

When

Sun, October 8, 2017
20:15

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Musicians

Nicola Sabato
bass, acoustic
Craig Handy
saxophone

About

From the time he arrived in New York at age 23 in 1986, saxophonist Craig Handy was acknowledged as a musician with big, burly tenor sound, sharp wit, and above all, individuality.

Labelled โ€œa young star,โ€ by New York Times jazz critic Peter Watrous at the tender age of 27, Handy breathed life into these accolades through a number of important associations.
Tapped almost immediately by the pioneering and profoundly influential drummer Art Blakey, Handy went on to hold his own on the front line of legendary bebop drummer Roy Haynesโ€™ band, work with South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, and weave sensuous obbligati behind Betty Carter on the kind of tunes most young artists are presumed not to understand. ...

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