PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Azar Lawrence, Classical to Jazz - Jazz to Classical

In the early 20th Century a young girl named Ima Jeane Smith often went to the movies— silent pictures— where the only sound was a live pianist, vamping dramatically in sync to the happenings on the screen. upon returning home from the pictures, ima jeane would sit down to her piano and play the "sound track" by memory.A Her parents, Casey and Beulah recognized their daughter's gift and they provided her with formal lessons.A Ima excelled in Classical music.A She graduated from colle...

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