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This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on tenor saxophonist Azar Lawrence.

Lawrence is a veteran of Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner's bands and a leader of his own group, The Azar Lawrence Experience, whose new album, Turn the Music Up, arrives September 25th.

We talk about his unique relationship with Pharoah Sanders, dodging McCoy Tyner’s broken piano strings, and how the fifty years between the first and latest recordings of his own songs trace his evolution as a musician.

(The musical excerpts heard in the interview are from Azar Lawrence’s Turn The Music Up)

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Dig Deeper

Artist and Album:

The Cookers:

Mentors and Collaborators:

Pharoah Sanders:

Los Angeles Roots:

Spiritual Study:

Venues:

Teaching:

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