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==Personal life== At a coming-home party the night after his release from Lewisburg Penitentiary, he met his eventual wife, Mona Brown, whom he married in 1960; they had two children, Roslyn and Jeffrey.<ref>{{Cite book|title=I Walked With Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath|last1=Heath|first1=Jimmy|last2=McLaren|first2=Joseph|publisher=Temple University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4399-0198-4|location=Philadelphia|pages=80β90}}</ref> Heath was the father of R&B songwriter/musician [[James Mtume]].<ref name="nea">{{cite web|url=http://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/jmCMS/master.php?id=2003_01 |title=NEA Jazz Masters: Jimmy Heath |author=National Endowment for the Arts |author-link=National Endowment for the Arts |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=July 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320130811/http://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/jmCMS/master.php?id=2003_01 |archive-date=March 20, 2012 }}</ref> In 2010 his autobiography ''I Walked With Giants'' was published by the Temple University Press.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tupress.temple.edu/book/0317|title=Temple University Press|website=tupress.temple.edu}}</ref> Heath stood just 5 feet, 3 inches. He notably played in a jazz concert at the [[White House]], when President [[Bill Clinton]] borrowed his saxophone for one number.<ref name="nytimes"/> Heath died on January 19, 2020, in [[Loganville, Georgia]], of natural causes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jazz Saxophone Legend Jimmy Heath Has Died |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2020/01/19/535609079/jazz-saxophone-legend-jimmy-heath-has-died |website=NPR.org |access-date=January 19, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
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