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The 2025 Savannah Music Festival will feature a diverse ... s work which is extremely diverse within the jazz idiom.” Bandleader and alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin (who is performing ...

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The elements of trumpeter Adam O’Farrill’s “For These Streets” (Out of Your Head, out now)—shifting sonic textures from an octet that includes horns, reeds, guitar and vibraphone ...