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on West 130th St. that was frequented by musicians. Danny Barker reported that
Pinkett died an alcoholic death, continually drinking during his last days and not able to hold down food. He died there on the afternoon of 15 March 1937, at the age of 30, with lobar pneumonia given as the cause of death. His wife, Ora Pinkett, arranged for the body to be shipped to his family in Virginia, and he is buried in Pleasant Shade Cemetery in Hampton City, Virginia.
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On 16 August 1926, Pinkett took out a license in the city of New York to marry Pencie Bailey, a 15-year-old girl from his hometown of
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Pinkett was a heavy marijuana user and a chronic alcoholic, which made him unreliable as a band member. Little is known of his whereabouts after he left the
Nicholas group. By 1937 he was living in a small, dingy room on the third floor above Reuben’s, a small after-hours bar owned by Reuben Harris
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October of that year he cut six sides with the group, both as a vocalist and trumpeter, the last recordings he made. Pinkett was fired shortly afterward for showing up drunk.
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