Remembering Saxophonist Steve Lacy

NPR | By Tom Cole

Published June 6, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Influential jazz saxophonist Steve Lacy died Friday of cancer at age 69, ending a career that was noticed by both John Coltrane and the MacArthur Genius Awards. Hear NPR's Tom Cole.

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