The Roxbury Arts Group will proceed its 2022 season with Lakecia Benjamin and Pursuance in a jazz live performance at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June four on the Roxbury Arts Heart at 5025 Vega Mountain Street in Roxbury.
In line with a press launch, voted by the 2020 Downbeat Critics Ballot Rising Star Alto Saxophonist and Up and Coming Artist of the Yr by the Jazz Journalists Affiliation, Benjamin fuses conventional conceptions of jazz, hip hop and soul.
Benjamin’s electrical presence and fiery sax work has shared the stage with legendary artists like Stevie Marvel, Alicia Keys, The Roots and Macy Grey. Because the chief of the band, he combines the basic sounds of James Brown, Maceo Parker, Sly and the Household Stone and The Meters with hovering beats worthy of the dance ground. Benjamin’s rhythms take the basic vibe to a brand new degree, with a sultry saxophone that additionally creates one thing particular in each reduce: a fiery late-night vibe, hard-hitting jazz depth, and even tight funk multi-horn concord sections.
A New York Metropolis native, born and raised in Washington Heights, Benjamin first picked up the saxophone at Fiorello LaGuardia Excessive College for the Performing Arts. From there he joined the famend jazz program on the New College College in New York. Even at that early stage, Benjamin was already enjoying with famend jazz figures resembling Clark Terry and Reggie Workman, giving him the chance to play and tour with quite a lot of artists resembling Rashied Aki, David Murray Large Band, Vanessa Rubin and James “Blood”. Ulmer. Along with his deep roots in jazz, he was quickly in demand as an arranger and trumpet part chief, working with acclaimed artists resembling Anita Baker.
Benjamin’s newest album, Pursuance, is described as an intergenerational masterpiece that takes one on a journey by means of the lineage of music with the works of John and Alice Coltrane. Benjamin pays tribute to those that got here earlier than her by that includes progressive bandleaders of her era, together with Reggie Workman (co-producer and performer), Ron Carter, Gary Bartz, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Meshell Mdegecello, Regina Carter, Bertha Hope, Final Poets. , Greg Osby, Steve Wilson, John Benitez, Marc Cary, Marcus Gilmore, Keyon Harrold, Marcus Strickland, Brande Youthful, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Jazzmeia Horn.
Advance sale tickets are $24 for adults and $22 for seniors and college students. Youth ages 15 and underneath will enter totally free.
Tickets on the door might be $29.
Go to roxburyartsgroup.org, e-mail applications@roxburyartsgroup.org, or name 607-326-7908 for extra data and tickets.
