Recent Awards and Honors

Recipient
"The Beacon Award", SFJAZZ, November 1, 2009

Announcements
In February, 2009, Mosaic Records released Mosaic 35 Select: John Handy, a 3-CD Select set of saxophonist John Handy's mid-1960s Columbia recordings, including some previously unreleased material from a 1967 concert performance. Anticipated date of release is February 10, 2009. For more information, visit www.mosaicrecords.com or www.amazon.com.

Harlem of the West
John Handy, Pony Poindexter, John Coltrane, Frank Fischer at Bop City John Handy at age 18, featured in book, "Harlem of the West", along with Pony Poindexter, John Coltrane,and Frank Fisher at Bop City Night Club in San
Francisco, 1951.

Authors: Elizabeth Pepin and Lewis Watts.
Publisher: Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2006.

 

 


Honor
John Handy honored by San Francisco State University, his alma mater: inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame, Friday, May 26, 2006 at San Francisco State University.

Feature
John Handy composition "Hard Work" featured in PBS documentary on three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, Paul Conrad: "PAUL CONRAD: Drawing Fire"; broadcast premiere aired November 7, 2006 on PBS.

Other Awards and Achievements

Honored by San Francisco State University, his alma mater, on the occasion of its centennial celebration with the First Annual John Handy Jazz Festival, August 26-29, 1999; and a John Handy Jazz Festival in 2000.

Honored by Mayor Willie Brown and the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco with a declaration of August 28, 1999 as "John Handy Day in San Francisco."

Grammy Nomination for Performance and Composer/Arranger for recording of "John Handy Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival," 1966

Bill Graham Lifetime Achievement Award, Bay Area Music (BAM), 1997

"Bay Area Blues Society Hall of Fame," Inducted 1992

"Russian River Jazz Festival JazzNote Award," 1996

"Lifetime Achievement Award," San Jose Jazz Society, 1995

"Jazzie Award," Jazz on the Hill Festival, 1998

Contribution to the World of Music Award, McClymonds High School (Alma Mater), Oakland, California

Artist-in Residence in the Jazz Studies Program at San Francisco State University, 1998, 1999, and 2002.

Artistic Director, OaklandJazzThere Festival, 2000

Jazz Legends Award (1996) and Artist-in-Residence (1998-2000) in the Jazz Studies Program of the Music Department at San Francisco State University

New Orleans Mayor's Proclamation, 1967

Contribution to the Arts Award, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, 1998

Music Makers Award, San Francisco Music Center, College of Alameda, 1986

Honors Award, Allen Temple Baptist Church, 1998

Black History Month Award, College of the Siskiyous, California, 1998