Jazz Articles about Lakecia Benjamin

About Lakecia Benjamin

Album Review

Retox è l'album d'esordio della giovane sassofonista statunitense, Lakecia Benjamin che, dopo varie esperienze al fianco dei Roots, Macy Gray, Alicia Keys e Stevie Wonder, ci offre un lavoro versatile al confine tra funk, soul, jazz e R&B. Dai trascinanti “Keep Talkin" e “Maceo," al morbido soul di “My Love" alla rilettura del classico di Stevie Wonder “Don't You Worry 'Bout The Thing" la Benjamin dà prova di ottime qualità strumentali e di arrangiamento grazie alla capacità di integrare strumentisti ...

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Album Review

Eli Yamin: You Can't Buy Swing

Read "You Can't Buy Swing" reviewed by George Kanzler

by George Kanzler
November 18, 2008

Pianist Eli Yamin is a communicator who believes jazz can foster a sense of community. His work is expansive and extroverted, populist in the best sense. As a teacher--he's now part of Jazz at Lincoln Center's education program--he's created jazz dramas and the dramatic impulse is a strong component of his music. So is swing. This album's title comes from a saying by a drummer who worked often with Yamin, the late Walter Perkins: “You can't buy swing, baby sweets. ...