Pamela Williams has lived in Los Angeles since 1989, but it was her native Philadelphia -- an artistic hotbed that everyone from John Coltrane to Teddy Pendergrass to the Fresh Prince has called home -- that did so much to shape her musical personality. "Philadelphia was a great place to learn music because the city's music scene was really happening when I was growing up," the saxophonist recalls.

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