Editing Steve Lacy (saxophonist) (section)

==Later career==
In 1992, he was the recipient of a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] (nicknamed the "genius grant").<ref name="JF04"/><ref name="Fellows92">{{cite web|url = http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142707/k.296C/Fellows_List__July_1992.htm|title = MacArthur Fellows July 1992|author = The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation|access-date = June 2, 2007|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110116042327/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142707/k.296C/Fellows_List__July_1992.htm|archive-date = January 16, 2011}}</ref>

He also collaborated with a wide range of musicians, from traditional jazz to the avant-garde to contemporary classical music. Outside of his regular sextet, his most regular collaborator was pianist [[Mal Waldron]],<ref name="JL84"/>{{rp|244–245}} with whom he recorded a number of duet albums<ref name="JF04"/> (notably ''[[Sempre Amore]]'', a collection of Ellington/Strayhorn material, Soul Note, 1987).

Lacy played his 'farewell concerts to Europe' in Belgium, in duo and solo, for a small but motivated public. This happened in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, [[Bruges]] and [[Mons, Belgium|Mons]]. In duo he played with Fred Van Hove, Joëlle Léandre, Mikhail Bezverkhni, Irène Aebi, Frederic Rzewski, Christopher Culpo and the dancer Shiro Daimon. This recollection is published by Naked Music, Afkikker, Ghent. In Ghent he played with the classical violinist Mikhail Bezverkhni, winner of Queen Elisabeth Concours. Two of these concerts were organized by Rita De Vuyst, his last muse in Europe, to whom he dedicated his solo CD Mother Goose solo @ afkikker. This CD is published within the book, ''Bone'', a tribute to Lacy. He returned to the United States in 2002, where he began teaching at the [[New England Conservatory of Music]] in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. One of his last public performances was in front of 25,000 people at the close of a [[peace]] rally on [[Boston Common]] in March 2003, shortly before the [[2003 Invasion of Iraq|US-led invasion of Iraq]].

After Lacy was diagnosed with liver cancer in August 2003, he continued playing and teaching until weeks before his death on June 4, 2004, at the age of 69.<ref name="AMG"/>