Alex Hand is a premier guitarist on the Texas scene, regularly performing with jazz, Celtic traditional, classic rock and gypsy swing groups. He graduated from the University of North Texas jazz performance program with a masters in 2021 and continues to perform and teach music in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He studied traditional Balkan music in Bulgaria and Turkey in 2015 and released two self-produced albums of that music with San Francisco jazz players. The second one, The Fast Crusade (2019), won two silver medals in the Global Music Awards in 2023: instrumentalist and concept. Handâs fifth album, Handsome Answer (2024) features all original music performed by an all-star cast of North Texas jazz players.
Alex made his television debut as an on-screen guitarist and recorded original arrangements for the soundtrack to 1883, a prequel to the Yellowstone series in 2021. He also composed and played banjo and guitar for a song on the soundtrack to Lawmen: Bass Reeves.