When Irving Berlin composed Blue Skies one has to wonder if Montana was on his mind. Berlin wrote Blue Skies in 1926, it was featured in the first feature-length talkie, The Jazz Singer and became a ...

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 ...

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 ...