It is sort of a natural cycle. However, if I sit at the piano long enough the music starts to come out—from where I don’t know. I try to listen to music that I enjoy and that inspires me.

Azar, of Greeley, then invites folks into his home to eat, play music and hang out well into the night. Azar heads up Greeley’s Persian Music Ensemble, performing on vocals and keyboard. The band ...

A one-time resident of Huntington, West Virginia, Iranian guitarist Farhad Bahrami arrived in San Diego in the early 1980s, bringing Persian music to the experimental Trummerflora Collective and ...