John Richard Handy III (born February 3, 1933)[1] is an American jazz musician most commonly associated with the alto saxophone.

He also sings and plays the tenor and baritone saxophone, saxello, clarinet, and oboe.

[1] In the 1960s, Handy led several groups, among them a quintet with Michael White, violin, Jerry Hahn, guitar, Don Thompson, bass, and Terry Clarke, drums.

[3] After completing high school at McClymonds High School in Oakland, he studied music at San Francisco State College, interrupted by service during the Korean War, graduating in 1958.

[4] In the 1980s he worked in the project Bebop & Beyond, which recorded tribute albums to Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk.