User:Azzyjames/Azzy james

Azzy James was born at John Wesley Hospital in Los Angeles, CA on 7/6/1964. He is the son of Eunice Turner an L.A. County retire and Archie James a well known drummer in the jazz community known for touring with The Two Hot Coles (Nat Cole's Family), Johnny Guitar Watson, Lou Rawls, Mary Wells, and many more.

Azzy is one of many notable graduates from Fairfax High School in Hollywood, California. He began playing instruments at John Burroughs Middle School in Los Angeles and Fairfax High School in Hollywood, CA.

After completeing high school in 1982, he worked a number off odd jobs from health club membership sales, shoe sales, unarmed security and cashiering at a local AM/PM Minimart in Culver City, CA. In 1988 Azzy landed a job with the federal government with the Department of Commerce as a ten key transcriber that was located in Brentwood, CA. At the time Azzy state for the first time in his life he experienced noticeable racism and believed he was too young to deal with and resigned from what he called a very good job after only two years of employment with them. As the year went by Azzy had used up all of his savings and had to ask his mother if he could move back home. While parked in his mother's driveway one day back in 1991 Azzy came across a long time family friend who worked as secretary with Liberty Mutual Insurance and told Azzy about a file clerk job with Liberty Mutual. Although at the time he thought the job was beneath his work experience his mother begged and prayed with him to get this job. Through the years Azzy has worked a number of jobs within the workers compensation insurance industry and was promoted to a senior level claims examiner in 2004. Azzy still jams on his drums now and then and is very proud to be an alumni of Fairfax High School noteables.