Benjamin
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World
Casey Benjamin, Free-Spirited Saxophonist, Dies at 45
A musical voyager who wouldn’t be limited by genre, style or even instrument, he brought exuberance to the Robert Glasper Experiment and other groups.
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Business
How a Marathoner and Sommelier Spends His Sundays
Yannick Benjamin has been training for the wheelchair race at the New York City Half Marathon, meditating and taking breaks to enjoy (but not critique) wine with his wife.
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Arts
At a French Opera Festival, Premieres in Pursuit of Happiness
Two works at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, by two inventive partnerships in opera, use fables to explore grief and queer utopian dreams.
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Arts
A Car Accident Couldn’t Halt the Saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin’s Rise
In 2020, she released a lauded album exploring the Coltranes’ music. The next year, she broke her jaw in a crash and turned the harrowing experience into inspiration for a new LP, “Phoenix.”