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WRTI joins the Philadelphia jazz community in mourning the loss of Byard Lancaster on August 23rd.
- Source: Philly
- | Via: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Email Dan DeLuca Byard Lancaster, the prolific Philadelphia jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist known for his avant-garde work in the early 1970s and more recently, his successful battles with SEPTA to be able to play his music on subway concourses, died on Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 70.
