Lakeisha Benjamin

So it's associated with, and it's funded for a long time, jazz is funded by people that are doing wrong.

Even in my own household, my grandmother didn't want me to play the saxophone.

She told me, if you're going to play that in here, you better learn some church songs on this saxophone.

So I'm in there trying to practice my Duke Ellington and also playing Holy, Holy, Holy.

So I think if you're from that generation, any sound of it or any recollection of it, you just associate with my daughter's going to hell.

In the 80s, especially since I'm from New Yorker, we're going to start to introduce hip-hop.

So they'll take like an 8-bar Donald Byrd song and start their song with that.

Bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum, bum-bum-bum.

When people think of love and they think of an instrument, they usually think of some saxophone player coming out and seducing somebody.

When it's time to really shred and rock out, you could really crank that thing up and take it all the way to Metallica land.

So for me, it's just the most versatile way to be all your complete self.