Day: October 20, 2025
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Slater, William R.
William Roy Slater, one of Rochester’s most prominent jazz pianists and educators, passed away peacefully October 16, 2025, at Fairport Skilled Nursing Facility in Rochester, New York, after a stroke he suffered in 2019. Born in Buffalo, New York, October 11, 1943, the second son of the late Harry “Bud” Slater and Arline Thomson Slater,…