Sax Player and Bandleader Lakecia Benjamin Imagines What's Possible

13/01/2025 30 min Episodio 118
Sax Player and Bandleader Lakecia Benjamin Imagines What's Possible

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Sax player, MC, and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin grew up playing salsa and merengue in Washington Heights. She counts jazz greats Terri Lyne Carrington, Gary Bartz, and Clark Terry among her mentors; and her list of collaborators includes Missy Elliott, Stevie Wonder, Lil Wayne, Dianne Reeves, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Brandee Younger, and Jazzmeia Horn. Benjamin is primarily known as a jazz musician, although as you might imagine she takes a pretty wide-angled view of jazz. Her latest record, the Grammy-nominated Phoenix Reimagined, is a live reworking of her 2023 album Phoenix, which earned three Grammy nominations. Sax player Lakecia Benjamin and her band play some of her latest tunes, in-studio.
1. Trane 2. Let Go 3. Mercy
Phoenix Reimagined (Live) by Lakecia Benjamin

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