Editing Jimmy Rushing (section)

==Death==
Rushing died of leukemia<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/rushing-james-andrew-jimmy-1902-1972/|title=James Andrew "Jimmy" Rushing (1902-1972)|website=Blackpast.org|first=Amilcar|last=Shabazz|date=January 21, 2007|access-date=August 28, 2023}}</ref> on June 8, 1972, at [[Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital]] in New York City, and was buried at the [[Maple Grove Cemetery (Queens)|Maple Grove Cemetery]] in [[Kew Gardens, Queens]], New York.<ref name="NYT">{{cite web |author1=John S. Wilson |title=Jimmy Rushing, Blues Singer With intense Voice, Dies at 68 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/09/archives/jimray-rushing-blues-singer-with-intense-voice-dies-at-68.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=18 April 2019 |date=June 9, 1972}}</ref> 

Until weeks before his death, he was singing on weekends at the [[Half Note Club]] in Manhattan.<ref name="NYT"/>