When Azar Lawrence first burst on to the jazz scene in the '70s he was hailed by many as the second coming of John Coltrane—an almost sacrilegious assertion considering the godlike stature to which ...

When Azar Lawrence plays Phoenix on Wednesday, April 30, as part of International Jazz Day, he will bring with him a lifetime’s worth of jazz knowledge, plus the experience of playing with jazz greats ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Azar Lawrence is a powerful and muscular saxophonist, equally effective on tenor and soprano, and this performance, ...

With its fiery playing and swirling, sometimes cacophonous crescendos and climaxes, Azar Lawrence’s gut-and-soul-punching jazz is not for the musical faint-of-heart. The saxophonist is a former child ...

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Presents the Azar Lawrence Sextet on Friday, May 7 at 8:30 pm. The group's performances is part 1 of the Lost Jazz Shrines Series, celebrating Ali's Alley. This ...

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 ...

Da Camera’s jazz series continues with saxophonist Azar Lawrence: The Love Supreme 50th Anniversary Band with Jeff “Tain” Watts. A powerful tenor saxophonist in the midst of a career resurgence, Azar ...

Azar Lawrence led a very musical childhood and began playing drums at the age of five and moved onto violin and piano under the direction of his mother Ima Lawrence. Ima, a gifted musician and teacher ...

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 ...