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WARDELL GRAY 2007-06-03 14:06:00 Wardell Gray belongs to that people spice that appears affect to the musician of jazz and that thinks common denominator, an ephemeral life and a premature death, basic moreover when began to sprout as musician. It died with 34 years in circumstanciate still today not cleared up. Of child your family am moved to Detroit and there began near to manifest your musical vocation. I study music in the "Cass Tech High" of Detroit and your first steps the |dio| with the clarinet. In 1943 it was contracted for the pianist, Earl Hines where was two years that it is considered basic for your later formation. Moreover, to cap it all, the time in which begins to get out of the chattered, coincides with the strike of decreed recordings for the powerful " musicians of American federation " and to your dark formative stage you are added the impossibility of listening to you in thoses years. In the orchestra of Earl Hines, I authenticate seed bed of big musicians, Wardell Gray blew the clarinet an
ANITA GRAVINE 2007-06-03 14:06:00 Sprouted in Carbondale (Pennsylvania), this singer takes enough years in the breach, and already to ends of the sixty sang with the |bigbands| of Larry Elgart, Buddy Morrow and Urbie Green. It moves to New York where contacts with Chick Corea and Hank Jones although your run caught with force in the eighties thanks to an unusual disks e series where the collaboration between the vocalist and your surveyor, Michael Abene, reached an important degree of mutual illumination. Your first disk is of 1983 for the "Progressive" stamp and obtains sufficient success to that other "Stax" |discográfica|, contract you again and invite you to engrave in study. Notwithstanding it was not until 1986 when |obtuvo| the international reconnaissance to your voice when engraved for " Alliance jazz " the extraordinary disk: " Welcome |my| |to| Dream " your better exponent of your growing quality. This disk was not published until 1993 and presents a program of reasonable |standars| of the cinema of Bing Cr
STÉPHANE GRAPPELLI 2007-06-03 14:05:00 Stéphane Grappelli (1908-1997) enjoied a long, fruitful and distinguished run as the main instrumentalist free in the jazz. Your music and your swing is will lean you always united to the genesis of the jazz in Europe of the hand of the extraordinary created group in Paris for Django Reinhardt, the best guitarist of European jazz, and denominate the " Hot Club Quintet of France ". Only in the last part of the century XX, other violinist, Jean Luc Ponty, belonging to other generation of different musicians, you are had brought near as possible rival. Grappelli, sprouted in Paris and it concerned your youth an autodidact musician, although you attended the Paris conservatory from 1924 to 1928. In 1927 it was interested in the jazz and began to work professional in cinemas and theaters although still, thoses orchestras are of dance as the eccentric " Gregor |et| Grégoriens ". Before finish the decade knew to who was about to change you the life musically speaking, the Belgian guit
GOGI GRANT 2007-06-03 14:05:00 Gogi Grant had your |epoca| of splendor halfway trough the fifties when made popular the topic: "The Wayward Wind." Habitual singer in the North American |televisivos| |magazines| of the |epoca|, your approach to the jazz, although scarce, it were always with respects and not it exempt of swing, although as most singers, your bias towards the musical |pop| is too evident. In your better times engraved five albums in single two years 1957-1959 for the RCA stamp, being the but outstanding of them/it, from the |jazzistico| viewpoint, the holder of an academic degree: "Welcome to my Heart".
DUSKO GOYKOVICH 2007-06-03 14:04:00 Your beginnings in the music went almost in school age; there touched a little guitar, piano and also the clarinet, but of form totally |amateur|. More late it decided to it blows the trumpet when it had fifteen or sixteen years, it who is a little late, and then it blew at all hours. It studied music, went to the conservatory to study classic technique and suddenly decide that your city is made small for your come as musician. It moves to Belgrade, the where city grew, and there had the opportunity to touch in bands of students. A day is presented you an opportunity to get out of Belgrade towards Frankfurt, in Germany and there knew a musical world but open, but dynamic and above all with but possibilities to develop your knowledges. It entered a group of professional musicians where remained several years touching. to ends of the fifty, and principles of the sixty the " |at| jazz Philarmonic ", the formation that sponsored the North American producer, Norman Granz, it were workin
TEDDY GRACE 2007-06-03 14:04:00 Sprouted in Louisiana, the Teddy Grace singer, enjoied only of a short run in the vocal jazz, but had the d virtue leave an indelible footprint between your admirers. It is raised in a family of brazen and surrounded position of the white and black cultures. Your instinct for the |blues|, it went neck and neck with your capacitance to assimilate it better of the white |folk|. In 1930 a crumb of infancy threatened you to that sing carried forward of the band in a club of field of Louisiana. Teddy Grace dazzled immediately to the publish and to the same band. It had a voice of contralto capable of it expresses great emotion to your voice as attest your later disks. In 1931 was already professional and it sang in the local radius besides your travels with the bands of to the Katz and Tommy Christian. In 1937 it travelled to New York to unite to the band of Mal Hallett, a musician that us single towards music of jazz. In February of that year, Grace engraved your first registers in
BENNY GOODMAN 2007-06-03 14:03:00 Benny Goodman, your complete name was baby David Goodman, sprouted in Chicago on 30th May 1909 in the sinus of a numerous and humble Jewish family of Polish origin. Benny was the ninth of twelve brothers. begin to study musical in the "Kehelah Jacob" synagogue by being part of your juvenile orchestra. In that time visits Chicago some coming musicians of New Orleáns, and when listens you, Benny Goodman adopts the jazz as your music forever. With fourteen years it obtains the identity card of the trade union of musicians and is contracted in the orchestrate of dance of Bill Grimm. There knows to the |cornetista| book of legends, Bix Beiderbecke, that acts in the hall of feasts: "Midway Gardens". In 1925 , achieves enter finally in a great orchestra: those of the shoe shop, they bar Pollack. There be during four years that served you to fuck experience on the functioning of a |bigband|. Until 1934 achieve form your own first orchestra. It contracts it the Billy manager blushes, and
DEXTER GORDON 2007-06-03 14:03:00 Sprouted in the angels, the one which out one of the better tenors saxophone players of the |bebop| and the |hardbop|, the Dexter Gordon youth, learned musical theory and clarinet, before choosing, the high |saxo| to the fifteen years and, definitively the tenor two year after. Your run began with the orchestra of Lionel Hampton, with the who remained three years. After acting during six monthes with the Louis Armstrong orchestra (1944), it was contracted for Billy Eckstine, for an one-year period and intercede. Again in the angels, took part in a sextet at the side of Charlie Parker and thousand Davis, for, consecutively, create your first hendecasyllabic quatrain, with the one which developed an intense activity between the angels and New York. During this time it engraved with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarresse, Charlie Parker, J.J. Johnson and Tadd Dameron, before associating with Wardell Gray, with who was the protagonist of interesting duels between 1947 and 1952 and of those who
CARLOS "SIR CHARLES" GONZÁLEZ 2007-06-03 14:02:00 The Madrilenian |baterista|, Carlos " Sir chatter " González, after confering a licentiate on in the faculty of sciences of the information, it decides be dedicated professional to the jazz. After belonging to different formations in your beginnings, it founds "Neobop" in 1982. With "Neobop" it has gone over the practical totality of the geography hispanizes and has acted in national and international festivals. The activities of Carlos González as |sideman| extend to him to the works with musicians as James Moody, Jim Snidero, Mike Osborne, Jeff Gordon, Ron Jackson, Gene Shimosato, Pedro Iturralde, Doug Raney or the great Lou Bennett organist who, from 1986 to your death, required frequently your support. Below your leadership has carried out numerous turn around for Spain, several concerts in France and has accompanied to highest quality musicians row as Clifford Jordan, Frank Lacy, Pony Poindexter, or Eric Barrett. It went Lou Bennett who nicknamed to Carlos as " Sir chatter ".
JERRY GONZÁLEZ 2007-06-03 14:02:00 Jerry González, sprouted in 1949 in the ward of the Bronx of the New York city. The grew with the musical African-Cuban and the jazz, that stopped a deep impact in your musical appraisal appreciation, and molded your future work as artist. When young, González listened to the jazz albums of your father of musicians as: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker o Miles Davis. While studying in the intermediate school, began to blow the trumpet and later the large rodents. González completed your formal studies in the New York College Music and the New York University of. Founder of the Folclórico group and experimental New Yorker, González has gone deep into in the Afro-Cuban |orígenes| of your music and in the jazz, following the scent so the majority tendency of the Latin formations of New York, dedicated principally to the sauce in the seventies. Legendary Latin artists as Mongo Santamaría, bridge purple vetch or Eddie Palmieri, served as important sources of musical inspiration fo
BABS GONZALES 2007-06-03 14:01:00 Of real name, you Brown, the singer, Babs Gonzales, had to be exchanged the name due to the need to keep one of your first employments as |chofer| of the actor, Erroll Flynn. So it could be inscribed in the hotels with your chief there if not allowed clients nor personal colored. As in the case of Slim Gaillard, Babs Gonzales, occupy the place that corresponds you in the history of the jazz, nor neither the one which deserves. That appears be the destiny it appears persecute to all thoses musical American African that it is exaggerated for the show and the variety show and on horseback between the Rhythm Blues |and|, the Jive or even in any way whatever this singular marry, the |bebop|. Babs Gonzales, |supo| create a repertoire of interesting songs, a folkloric slang very carefully dosed and your onomatopoeia but singular, the celebrates " Oop, Pop_to, gives, made popular for the great Dizzy Gillespie |trompetista| , or your vocal version of "Ornithology" , showing your dominion s
PAUL GONSALVES 2007-06-03 14:01:00 The tenor saxophone player, Paul Gonsalves, grew in Rodhe Island and in 1936 selected the guitar as first instrument for your lessons of music, however very prompt change to the tenor |saxo| and it went in touch in bands of your natal location in Boston until having to enter in the practice in 1942. when confering a licentiate on four years but late, returned to Boston during a short period of time and later it is united to the band of Count Basie, where got with your characteristic sound influenced for bar Webster and Illinois Jacquet, convert in a soloist star of the band with a touch and modernist sound until your march in 1949. During a short period of time it was in the band of Dizzy Gillespie (1949-1950) before this dissolved. Was lucky and the teacher, Duke Ellington, contracted it for your famous orchestra. Your paper in the same, it was those of an experienced saxophone player and it ripen and your opportunity to shine with own light reached you suddenly when the orche
BENNY GOLSON 2007-06-03 14:00:00 Benny Golson, it is a saxophone player with some endowments for the extraordinary composition. It studied music in the university of Howard between 1947 and 1950, and your musical beginnings take place to the warmth of the Rhythm Blues |and| , when entered in the band of Bull Moose Jackson in 1951. Your choppinesses with the jazz was due to the influence it practiced in it, the Tadd Dameron pianist, with who shared a fruitful period in 1953. Also a year following participated with the band of Lionel Hampton between 1953 and 1954 and the two years following with the saxophone player, Johnny Hodges. Your encounter with the |trompetista|, Dizzy Gillespie, between 1956 and 1958 marked you profoundly and during the last years of the decade of the fifty, got a fame |reputadísima| of magnify instrumentalist. Your experience but fruitful and for which it is understands you the history of the jazz went when it participated with the |trompetista|, Art Farmer, in the |cofundación| of the ce
JOSETXO GOIA 2007-06-03 14:00:00 Josetxo Goia -Aribe, saxophone player and Navarresse composer, bases great part of your work in taking and consider the traditional music of your earth, transgressing the and taking the so to musical more universal spaces, all it with a dose of personal creation. Your music is fine, chancy and heterodox. The trajectory of this musician begins by a long experience in different musical styles. This experience will conduct you little by little to begin a more personal stage |liderando| your own groups and by publishing three disks to your name. In your first "Auñamendi" work Josetxo Goia -Aribe near three musical parisians, does a travel for the Navarresse geography where, by taking elements of the folklore, transports us to sound more contemporary worlds. Then will come "Eunate", a musical adventure in which this saxophone player outlines us a duo of |violoncello| and saxophone, somewhat unusual and little conventional where can listen to 13 compositions that do to him accomplices w
JIMMY GIUFFRE 2007-06-03 13:59:00 Of complex personality, the Jimmy Giuffre |multiinstrumentista|, began to study clarinet to the nine years standing out little after the instrument completely. It became tainted then to the tenor |saxo| and in 1942 is graduated in music for the state university of Texas. It continued your musical studies in the angels during eight years with Wesley the Violette who teach you the secrets of the composition. During your permanence in the practice touched the clarinet and the |saxo| in a band be a militant member and when it is confered a licentiate on, in 1946 , it registered in a symphony orchestra, the " scythe Symphony " where touched the tenor |saxo| in " Porgy Bess |and| ". a year following was with the orchestra of Jimmy Dorsey and in the 48 with the Buddy Rich |baterista| and your famous orchestra. In 1949 your run it gives a qualitative important leap when enters in the orchestra of Woody Herman. Went Giuffre who without proposing it |dio| to that group after the composition Read more:JIMMY
DIZZY GILLESPIE 2007-06-03 13:58:00 John Birks Gillespie, went the minor of the nine children of a where family your father, mason of profession, it blew the piano in an orchestra of fans. Your first instrument went the trombone but it desisted soon given the short longitude of your hands, which impeded you reach all the notes. to the fourteen years it began to practice with a trumpet of a neighbor and your fondness for which it is the where instrument step to the great history of the jazz began seriously until getting a scholarship to study harmony and musical theory in the Laurinburg Institute of Carlos of the north. After installing your family in Philadelphia in 1935, |obtuvo| a position in the orchestra of Frank Fairfax, where for that time blew the gifted |trompetista| , Charlie Shavers, who shared trio moreover with an idol of the own Gillespie: Roy Eldridge. As so much other youthes, Gillespie was gone to New York and there connected with the orchestra of Teddy Hill, and in a test session of the orchestra, a
ASTRUD GILBERTO 2007-06-03 13:48:00 Astrud Gilberto is without doubt the voice but important inside the Latin current of the jazz and the singer but representative of the " nova |bossa| " a sprung up style in the root of the Brazilian people, and that connects with it better of the Latin tradition of the swing. It began to sing almost for accident in 1963. Joao Gilberto, your husband in that one moment and of who takes the surname, Stan Getz and Antonio Carlos Jobim were found in New York by registering for the Verve stamp the historical "Getz/Gilbert" album, one of the unquestionable references in which it is |dio| in calling " jazz |samba| ". Astrud served as translating between Brazilian and American when the producer believe Taylor, creator afterwards of the "CT" stamp, suggest that in the version of " Garota of Ipanema " ( the small thing of Ipanema, the piece but famous of all times of the nova |bossa| ) incorporate a part in English language, and suggest that Astrud the sing . It went your consecration and t
STAN GETZ 2007-06-01 11:18:00 Of the saxophone player, Stan Getz, already said in your famous book: " the jazz, of the |orígenes| to our days ", the famous criticize, Joachim E. Berendt, in the fifties apropos of this musician: "...It is a virtuous person that it can touch which is possible with a tenor |saxo| ". and in effect, it be in the presence of one of thoses musicians that get an absolute dominion of your instrument by putting it to the service of a creative inspiration, permanently renewed and almost without being bounded. But also Stan Getz, it is one of the more original stylists of the whole history of the jazz and that for many is considerate one of the five truly revolutionary tenors saxophone players in the history of this music. With capacitance to produce sound, suggestive emotionality in the ballads and creative and splendid in the quick times, your art was influenced in the form of touching of Charlie Parker for a side, the message of Bird lowered lance deep in Stan Getz,and in the relaxed
KENNY GARRETT 2007-06-01 11:17:00 Kenny Garrett is a true " |star| |all| " of the contemporary jazz. It is the more outstanding thing of the children (musical) of the last time of Miles Davis, your discoverer, and your name already forms part of the modern history of this genre. Kenny Garrett sprouted in Detroit in 1960, where it began from very young to blow |saxo| , clarinet and flute. to ends of the years 70 invited you to be part of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, directed then by Mercer Ellington. With it it celebrated turn around for the whole world and, after buying real estate in New York, it took part in the |sessions| |jam| of George Coleman and in the |bands| |big| of Mel Lewis and Frank Foster. In 1984 it engraves your first disk as leader, near Woody Shaw and Nat Reeves, between other. a year following engraves a disk in the The Blue of out group, with Michael Philip Mossman, Ralph Bowen, Harry Pickens, Robert Hurst and Ralph Peterson, by arranging in order your work with Freddie Hubbard. Little after i
GEORGE GERSHWIN 2007-06-01 11:17:00 George Gershwin, it is if doubts the American composer more celebrates and your music has interpreted in the but diverse possible situations, versions and stages. From the in concert classic drawing-rooms, to the clubs of jazz; from the theaters of Broadway to the |hollywoodense| stage. at the beginning of the twenties, Paul Whiteman, a director of orchestra of the time of the swing, made popular your famous " Rhapsody Blue in ", starting point of your compositions to those who |seguirián| in cascade other successes as " ar American Paris in ", or the opera " Porgy Bess |and| " |versionada| spectacular for the brilliant pair of singers of jazz, Louis Armstrong and she Fitzgerald. George Gershwin, is known amply for your numerous songs and compositions, with letter of your Gershwin anger brother, in your majority, that have passed to be part of the cultural heap of the humanity. Among them it is necessary to stand out unavoidably: "The seas Love i"; "Love Is Here to Say"; "Lady be
RED GARLAND 2007-06-01 11:16:00 With 17 years the father taught how to you blow the clarinet without that in your infancy demonstrated some inclination for the music. Your true passion was the boxing. It was musical teacher to A. S. Jackson that neither |supo| free from he all your value. But late it knew to Buster Smith, and in this way it sprouted your fondness to the high |saxo|. Your lessons with Buster gave the desired fruit for your huge and got learn music and to interpret the |blues|. It concerned 1947, in your time of enlistment in the practice North American, when began to blow the piano listening attentively the disks of Count Basie and Nat King Cole in the |juke|-|boxes| of the quarters. It began to interest thoroughly for the jazz and studied to the classic pianist of the swing, as James P. Johnson, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson and Count Basie. Parallel your fondness to the boxing took you to debate someone fight in the |welter| weight, where reached to debate 31 combats. In 1944 |obtuvo| a contract in
ERROLL GARNER 2007-06-01 11:16:00 The precocity marked the first steps of Erroll Garner, a classic pianist of jazz sprouted in the sinus of a family of members of the chorus of the church of Pittsburgh, city where sprouted in 1921. The father moreover blew the saxophone, the guitar and the mandolin in a group of fans. Of child while all your five brothers studied piano, the blew by ear the melodies that got out of the ancient gramophone tame where the hands of Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Earl Hines or Fats Waller, introduced you in the jazz. In the school coincided with Dodo Marmarosa, Billy Strayhorn and Ahmad Jamal. The two first practiced a strong influence in the, while Jamal is afterwards one of your better disciples. In 1944 it decides be left to New York and had the luck of substituting nothing but and no less that to the great Art Tatum, in the trio of the |contrabajista| , Slam Stewart, that it acted regularly in the famous "Three Deuces" club of the street 52 in Harlem, and did it moreover with naturalness,
RAFA GARCÉS 2007-05-31 09:04:00 One of the more versatile artists of the Cuban catalogue of jazz in Spain maybe is Garcés irrigation side ditch. Sprouted in La Havana (Cuba), child of a teacher of classic piano, near your brother, began your formation to very short age. It studied in the national conservatory of La Havana, (Cuba), by receiving formation of so grateful teachers as veering around eight or Carlos Averoff of the group: Irakere, of the one which received your first rudiments of jazz. to the 17 years, obtains the 1º Premium in the Amadeo Roldán contest (La Havana). More late, it is requested to be part of the band of Jazz IREME, with those who it takes part in three editions of the international festival of plaza jazz of La Havana, organized for Arturo Sandoval, in which coincides with big interpret as Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chucho Valdés, Dave Valentín and Dizzy Gillespie between other. More late, by accompanying to the Maggie Carles International, they take part in the international festival of jazz of
ENRIQUE GARCÍA 2007-05-31 09:03:00 to the 16 years begins to blow the guitar and frequents studies of solfeggio and violin in the conservatory of Madrid. from 1970 begins to touch in different groups of |pop| and |rock| in Madrid, ending at the end of some time in the jazz, musical in which begins to develop an own technique and original to blow the guitar. It belonged to the Neobop group with the one which worked from 1982 during four years in clubs and jazz of festivals, and with whom engrave the program acquaintance of TVE " jazz between friends ". to ends of 1993 call you to work as musician, actor in the work " Marat, Sade ", directed for Miguel Narros and represented during five monthes in the María Guerrero theater of Madrid, and other two of turning around for all Spain. It has worked with musicians as George Pardo, Ramon loyal, Ferdinand Sobrino, Larry Martin, Pedro Iturralde and Joshua Edelman between other.
BARRY HARRIS 2007-06-06 10:31:00 For many fans to the jazz, between those who find me, the Barry Harris teacher, it is one of the better disciples that had Bud Powell and by listening to you, is difficult to slip back that appraisal appreciation. Barry is of those musical that sprouts almost with a piano under the arm. It studied from nursing baby below the attentive look of your mother in Detroit, where place sprouted in the middle of |crack| of 1929 , when the bag sank to him and the people is fired for the windows. Study in the High School of Detroit and there discovered the |bebop| in 1946 while blowing with a |amateur| orchestra that, as a lot of, reached to earn some contest. The |profesionalidad| moves close you more late, but it is with a position nothing despicable, since it is converted in the regular pianist of the Detroit Bluebird club. There touched with Lester Young, Charlie Parker and thousand Davis, for which, if it was missing you something for learning, learned it of the better. More late it substitu
TOM HARRELL 2007-06-06 10:31:00 Inflamed boil on 16th June 1946 in urban, Illinois, Tom Harrell, it has been capable of meet face to face with courage to a serious illness, and of getting ahead to convert in one of the better |trompetistas| of jazz of the eighties and ninety. On the stage, it becomes concentrated absolutely in your music and only appears is alive when improvises. Harrell, raised in the north of California and, from 1967, |vio| subdued to a constant treatment with medicines, that not impeded you graduate in Stanford in 1969. Your first works concerned the Stan Kenton orchestras (1969), Woody Herman (), and in the quintet of Horace Silver (). It is moved to New York halfway trough the seventy and it touched in that period with Cecil Payne, Bill Evans (1979), the |noneto| of reads Konitz (1979-81) and George Russell (1982). In 1983 it knew to Phil Woods, who integrated it in your group, the "Phil Woods Quintet", with the one which went over the world and to the one that belonged until 1989.
ROY HARGROVE 2007-06-06 10:30:00 Of between the musicians of contemporary jazz, the Texan |trompetista|, Roy Hargrove stood out soon as soloist of great creative fecundity and also demonstrated very prompt your capacitance for projected musical |liderar| solids and effective. Your start-ups went near the saxophone players, Bobby Watson, George Coleman and Sonny Rollins. to beginnings of the nineties it organized your own quintet and with it beens gone to him by presenting in the numerous stages and concerts along the whole world and standing out as one of the young formations of jazz but promising. Before, to ends of the eighty enters contact with the school of jazz of the teacher of the trumpet, Wynton Marsalis, who encourages to you follow studying given your quality with the instrument. Between your finish off experiences of a still stops run, finds to him the album engraved in 1993 for the Verve stamp, your current |discográfica|, supposed: " Quintet out of tenors |the| |with| swindles " and in which coun
KIP HANRAHAN 2007-06-06 10:29:00 The |percusionista| , composer and director of orchestra, Kip Hanrahan, sprouted in the Bronx from New York in 1937 and it is one of the figures but singulars that have appeared in the scene of the jazz but recently. For many artists and musical, Hanrahan are in the Afro-American music all an idol and your disks, all an authenticate manifest musical, are waited with anxiety for your faithful followers. Your success this based on an exotic originality that hatches all turns of the jazz, from your |orígenes| to the |soul| , of the |bebop| to the |funk| or the jazz |free|. Your concerts with Jerry Gonzales, Lester Bowie, David Murray or Taj Mahal, it are an authenticates musical experience without comparison in any other musician and of it remains testimony in your disks: "Coup of suckling"; "exotic" and other but. Assisting in direct to one of the scarce and strange actions of Hanrahan, it is an unique experience, an authenticate festival of sounds, a torrent of ideas new execut
CRAIG HANDY 2007-06-06 10:28:00 Before adopting the tenor |saxo| as your favorite instrument, Cray Handy, it blew the guitar, the trombone and the piano. It went after listening to to the great Dexter Gordon in the radius of your house. Your opportunity to bring near to the jazz professional came you after your participation in the noted program of jazz of the "Bekerley High School" that it produced the also saxophone player, David Murray together with Peter Apfelbaun, Benny Green and Joshua Redman. Handy got the scholarship "Charlie Parker" it allows you to study in the famous "North Texas State University". After two years and intercede it specialized in psychology and acted in the famous " One or "Clock Lab Band" of the university. In 1995 takes part in in two recordings for the "Chartbusters", a composed group besides for himself, by Donald Harrison to the high |saxo| , Dr. Lonnie Smith to the organ and Idris Muhammad to the shoe shop. to ends of that same year the group launches your first supposed disk