"So It's Family": Azar Lawrence on Cecil McBee, Eddie Henderson, and Fifty Years of Overlap

In this excerpt from the new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, Azar Lawrence lists the players who keep reappearing across his career — Cecil McBee at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Billy Hart and Buster Williams by way of McCoy Tyner's bands, Eddie Henderson's A-frame in the Oakland Hills — and settles on a one-word account of it: family.

Be sure to listen to the entire conversation: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/azar-lawrence-spiritual-jazz-with-the-funk-left-in-saxophone/

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