Lakecia Benjamin: We Dream

In the organizer's words:

She is one of the figureheads of contemporary jazz. In her music, funk, soul and hip-hop meet the retro movement of the moment: spiritual jazz. She had already dedicated one of her last albums to it in the form of a tribute to John and Alice Coltrane. Lakecia Benjamin's music can be described as a high-energy version of this meditative sub-genre. She herself sees her voluminous playing as a kind of healing musical practice. A claim that she summed up for DownBeat Magazine as follows: "Every note I play touches someone on a deeper level." The six-time Grammy-nominated saxophonist will be presenting her latest album "We Dream" at BASF Feierabendhaus. Attentive and full of emotional devotion to the moment, she stages her music as an empathetic dialog with the audience. She has a simple explanation as to why this works so perfectly and captivatingly: "I don't play anything that doesn't tell a story."