A Reemergence “Straight Ahead Jazz" With The Azar Lawrence Quartet! Sax man “Azar Lawrence said to have been quiet since his stellar beginning on the music scene in the 70's is reemerging as a serious ...

Azar performed with a sixteen piece band for famed Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke in February, 2009 at Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal. State Los Angeles. When Azar soloed Benny Maupin, whom he ...

Azar Lawrence has never shied away from his discipleship to John Coltrane. (Every tenor saxophonist of the past 50 years has come under Trane’s influence, but Lawrence is from the first generation of ...

In music as in fashion, stick around long enough, and you might just come back into style. For jazz master Azar Lawrence, the tide has turned with propitious timing, providing him with new visibility ...

Azar Lawrence was a young music prodigy, lovingly tutored by his mother, who taught music and led their church choir. At age five, he played violin in the Los Angeles Junior Symphony, then viola, but ...

Saxophonist Azar Lawrence stepped onstage at Charlie O’s on Friday night like a bear coming out of hibernation. Looking around warily, taking a few moments to adjust a recalcitrant reed on one of his ...

Time hasn’t quite stood still for the saxophonist, but the extended, fervently voiced John Coltrane-infused solos that garnered Lawrence attention back in the seventies are echoed on “The Seeker,” a ...