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LAKECIA BENJAMIN

Whirlwind

etween her get-up-and-go and her prodigious talent, alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin hasn’t made any serious creative missteps. In particular, her well-received John and Alice Coltrane tribute album, 2020’s , featured leading lights from Ron Carter to Reggie Workman to Meshell Ndgeocello, and showed both the depth of Benjamin’s reverence for her forebears and rising cachet in the NYC jazz world.

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