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Artist: Lakecia Benjamin
Album Name: Phoenix Reimagined (Live)

To witness a live performance by the alto saxophonist, MC, and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin is to never forget it. This transcendent live studio album performance boasts 4 new songs to the already acclaimed music. The title track highlights a special curated group of friends of Lakecia’s: John Scofield, Randy Brecker and Jeff “Tain” Watts. 

For Lakecia, “Phoenix” is a double metaphor; referring to the New York City she grew up in and watched slowly be reborn following the pandemic while also in reference to her escaping career ending injuries in 2021 following a serious car accident. 

This new album covers the breadth of the Benjamin live experience, allowing her to highlight her compositions as well as the creativity, talent, and commitment of the female artists she surrounds herself with. Phoenix Reimagined (Live) 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.

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