Death
On June 22, 1988 Jesse Ed Davis collapsed and was pronounced dead in a laundry room in Venice, California. Davis had various drugs in his system and his death is commonly attributed to a heroin overdose. He was 43 years old.
In 2002, Davis was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.
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