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Cancer claims life of lecturer

daisy.gifRenowned jazz musician and Department of Music lecturer Hal Stein passed away from lung cancer on Apr. 27, just five months before his 80th birthday.

Stein, who took up saxophone at the age of 11, played with a number of famous artists over his lifetime, including Charles Mingus, Joe Henderson and Artie Shaw. He moved to the Bay Area in 1971 and has been “a fixture” ever since, according to jazz studies coordinator Jim Nadel.

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