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  1. Steve Lacy (born Steven Norman Lackritz; July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. Coming to prominence in the 1950s as a progressive dixieland musician, Lacy went on to a long and prolific career.

  2. Jun 18, 2004 · Remembering Saxophonist Steve Lacy. He died earlier this month. Lacy was considered "the foremost interpreter of Thelonius Monk" and in fact trained and performed with Monk when he was in his...

  3. Jun 6, 2004 · 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.

  4. Apr 9, 2024 · Steve Lacy, one of the greatest soprano saxophonists of all time and a New England Conservatory faculty member since fall 2002, died Friday [June 4th, 2004] at New England Baptist Hospital.

  5. Steve Lacy. Soprano saxophonist worked in a variety of settings and as a solo improviser, ranges from the traditional to the avant garde. Read Full Biography.

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  7. Jun 5, 2004 · Steve Lacy, who has died of liver cancer aged 69, was one of the great practitioners of the soprano saxophone and, unlike most soprano saxophonists, he played that instrument exclusively. It was Lacy who inspired John Coltrane's adoption of that delicate, highly strung, distantly oboe-like instrument.

  8. Jun 18, 2004 · Fresh Air jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews two reissues featuring the late soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy — a live recording of a 1963 quartet that only played Thelonious Monk tunes, and later music for solo soprano.

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