Father Norman J. O'Connor, Feisty Host of "Jazz with Father O'Connor," Passes On

From The New York Times (excerpts) — 7/6/2003

The Rev. Norman J. O'Connor, a Roman Catholic priest who was also a well-known authority on jazz, died last Sunday in Wayne, N.J., where he lived. He was 81. ...

Father O'Connor, whose name was seldom mentioned in print without the words "the jazz priest" attached, began making a name for himself in the jazz world not long after being ordained as a Paulist priest in 1948.

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