The schools he attended (Wadsworth Elementary, Nevins Middle School, and Thomas Jefferson High School) were all close to the famed Central Avenue, Los Angeles' equivalent of Harlem's Lenox Avenue and Chicago's State Street. The area of Los Angeles that Ayers grew up in, South Park (later known as South Central) was at the center of the Southern California Black music scene. At the age of five, he was given his first pair of vibraphone mallets by Lionel Hampton. He grew up in a musical family, where his father played trombone and his mother played piano.
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