Local News in Jericho

Long Island Press Published September 15

Jon Small, Billy Joel’s early bandmate and acclaimed director, dies at 79

Jon Small, the Jericho-raised drummer who helped launch Billy Joel’s music career before becoming an acclaimed music-video director, died Friday, Sept. 4, at his home in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was 79 and died of cancer. Small, a 1965 graduate of Jericho High School, was a…