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Wayne, N.J. - The Rev. Norman J. O'Connor, a Roman Catholic priest and authority on jazz music, died June 29 of a heart attack, the medical examiner's office said. O'Connor was 81.
O'Connor made a name for himself in the jazz world soon after he was ordained as a Paulist priest in 1948. According to The New York Times, his name was seldom mentioned in print without the words "the jazz priest."
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