Art&Network | Lakecia Benjamin New project – Phoenix
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February 10, 2023

Lakecia Benjamin New project – Phoenix

Stage Line-Up – Lakecia Benjamin : Alto sax + Zaccai Curtis : Piano, EJ Strickland : Drums, Ivan Taylor : Bass

 

“Phoenix” is the highly-anticipated, expansive new album in the musical evolution of alto saxophonist and composer Lakecia Benjamin, released on January 27th, 2023 via Whirlwind Recordings.

 

The album was produced by the multi-Grammy-award winning Terri Lyne Carrington and features a star-studded line up of specially curated guests Dianne Reeves, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Patrice Rushen, Sonia Sanchez, Angela Davis and Wayne Shorter. “Phoenix” is a double metaphor. Lakecia Benjamin refers to the New York City she grew up in and watched slowly die during the pandemic and then come back to life. But it is also a personal reference to the death which she miraculously escapes from in the Fall of 2021 following a serious car accident. This new opus is also an opportunity to highlight her own compositions as well as the creativity, talent and commitment of the female artists she surrounds herself with. “Phoenix” marks yet another stratospheric rise for an artist who resolutely knows what she wants to say and how to say it, all the while honoring her mentors and the traditions that have come before her.

 

LISTEN TO “PHOENIX” (ALBUM PREVIEW)