Jazz Articles about Lakecia Benjamin

About Lakecia Benjamin

Live Review

Sceaux Jazz Festival 2026: A Rising Voice Just Outside Paris

by Acacia Grace
June 27, 2026

Sceaux Jazz Festival Sceaux, France June 11-14, 2026 Just a short ride south of Paris, in the grand Cour d'Honneur of the Château de Sceaux, the Sceaux Jazz Festival has quietly become one of the more intriguing additions to France's summer jazz calendar. Founded in 2021 by Les Gémeaux during the cultural reopening that followed the pandemic, the festival was born from a simple desire: to reconnect artists and audiences through live music in an outdoor ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Lakecia Benjamin, Yazz Ahmed, New Jazz Underground and Brad Goode with Ernie Watts

by Hobart Taylor
June 3, 2026

Loads of new releases and Sonny Rollins answers the question, “Why was I Born?"Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Claudia Acuña “Meditation in Two Chords" from Ave de Luz (Delfin) 00:11 Okan “Ajé (Owo Nla Nla)" from (Single) (Lulaworld) 05:33 Julian Muro “Ay (feat. Bergamot Quartet, Ethan Cohn)" from Apfus, Vol.1 (ears&eyes) 08:30 Host Speaks 14:15 Brad Goode/Ernie Watts “Half Moon" from Live Your Dream (Origin) 15:43 Zela Margossian “In Flight" from Remedy (Ropeadope) 26:53 Host Speaks 34:48 Moor Mother/BlankForms ...

Album Review

Lakecia Benjamin: We Dream

Read "We Dream" reviewed by Andrew Schinder

by Andrew Schinder
May 29, 2026

In a genre full of peaceniks, Lakecia Benjamin is a killer. Benjamin, the alto saxophonist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, has exploded over the course of the 2020's--both figuratively and musically. Her sound is brash and resonant, yet delicately composed and precisely structured. Benjamin is a focused musician, with all of her artistic choices brimming with intent, and the results are positively thrilling. She has become one of contemporary jazz's most popular and revered alto saxophonists, and she is just ...

Album Review

Lakecia Benjamin: We Dream

Read "We Dream" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 28, 2026

Lakecia Benjamin is clearly pulling no punches on We Dream. Not that she ever has, given a discography that includes 2020's Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope Records); 2012's intoxicating, groove-crazy Retox (Motema) or the spellbinding sister releases Phoenix (Whirlwind, 2023) and the super stoked Phoenix ReImagined (Live) (Ropeadope Records, 2024). We Dream drops the mic and leaves the rest up to the listener: What are you going to do to make the world a better place today? Excitable and ...

Festivals Talking

Moers Festival Interviews: Lakecia Benjamin

by Martin Longley
May 22, 2026

The last day of the Moers Festival is also the Monday holiday of Whitsun, still marked in Germany, even if it's dormant in England, but still technically observed in the USA, although not granted a public day off work. As a climax of both the five-day festival and the (Pentecost) holiday, the NYC alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin will storm the Moers castle, filling this main stage with extreme jazz hyperventilation, patterned with some elements of funk, hip-hop and poetic-narrative rhyming. ...

Radio & Podcasts

Lakecia Benjamin, Patrick Zimmerli, SFJAZZ Collective & Horace Silver

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 20, 2025

Enjoy a selection featuring A-listers who know how to collaborate and set their egos aside, plus an unearthed live gem from Horace Silver.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Lakecia Benjamin feat. Immanuel Wilkins, Mark Whitfield “Noble Rise" Noble Rise (Ropeadope) 0:16 Host talks 6:29 SFJAZZ Collective “Unknow Know With What Is" Collective Imagery (SFJAZZ) 7:41 Patrick Zimmerli “Emanation" Messages (EMP) 17:55 Host talks 24:41 Horace Silver Quintet “Sayonara ...

Radio & Podcasts

Jack DeJohnette, Horace Silver, Jerry Weldon & Lakecia Benjamin

by Joe Dimino
November 16, 2025

Kicking off the 932nd episode of Neon Jazz, we dive in with the always electrifying Lakecia Benjamin, joined by Immanuel Wilkins and Mark Whitfield on her powerful new 2025 single “Noble Rise." From there, we journey through a treasure trove of fresh and timeless jazz--unreleased gems from Horace Silver live in Seattle circa 1965, a stirring Chick Corea farewell performance, the haunting beauty of Bill Evans' Haunted Heart, and Charles Mingus captured in full force at Monterey. In between, we ...