Jazz saxophonist Illinois Jacquet, July 22

Illinois Jacquet holds the microphone as President Clinton plays the saxophone at the end of a jazz concert on the White House lawn in 1993. Jacquet, a tenor saxophonist who defined the jazz style called screeching and played with jazz legends including Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and Cab Calloway during a career spanning eight decades, died on July 22. He was 81.

( AP/Marcy Nighswander )

Illinois Jacquet holds the microphone as President Clinton plays the saxophone at the end of a jazz concert on the White House lawn in 1993. Jacquet, a tenor saxophonist who defined the jazz style called screeching and played with jazz legends including Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and Cab Calloway during a career spanning eight decades, died on July 22. He was 81.

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