Editing Jelly Roll Morton (section)

==== Stabbing, later life, and death ====
In 1938, Morton was stabbed by a friend of the Music Box's owner and suffered wounds to the head and chest. A nearby [[racial segregation|whites-only]] hospital refused to treat him, as the city had racially segregated facilities. He was transported to a black hospital farther away. When he was in the hospital, doctors left ice on his wounds for several hours before attending to the injury. His recovery from his wounds was incomplete, and thereafter he was often ill and became short of breath easily. After this incident, his wife Mabel demanded they leave Washington.<ref name="Jazz">{{Cite web |title=U Street Jazz – Performers – Prominent Jazz Musicians: Their Histories in Washington, D.C. |url=http://www.gwu.edu/~jazz/performersp.html |access-date=2015-10-05 |publisher=Gwu.edu |archive-date=June 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611223748/https://www2.gwu.edu/~jazz/performersp.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Worsening asthma sent him to a hospital in New York for three months. He continued to suffer from respiratory problems when he travelled to [[Los Angeles]] with the intent to restart his career. He died on July 10, 1941, after an eleven-day stay in [[Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center|Los Angeles County General Hospital]]. He was generally believed to be 50 years old. According to the jazz historian David Gelly in 2000, Morton's arrogance and "bumptious" persona alienated so many musicians that few of them attended his funeral.<ref name="Gelly">{{Cite book |last=Gelly |first=David |title=Icons of Jazz |date=2000 |publisher=Thunder Bay |isbn=1-57145-268-0 |location=San Diego, California}}</ref>

An article about the funeral in the August 1, 1941, issue of ''[[DownBeat]]'' reported that his pallbearers were Kid Ory, [[Mutt Carey]], [[Freddie Washington (pianist)|Fred Washington]], and [[Ed Garland]]. It noted that [[Duke Ellington]] and [[Jimmie Lunceford]] were absent, though both were appearing in Los Angeles at the time.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=August 1, 1941 |title=Bury Jelly Roll Morton on Coast |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_down-beat_1941-08-01_8_15/page/13/mode/1up |journal=[[DownBeat]] |volume=8 |issue=15 |page=13 |access-date=13 April 2024}} Additional Morton material on pp. 1 & 4 of this issue.</ref> [[Mercer Ellington]], Duke Ellington's son, did attend the funeral. The article was reproduced in ''[[Mister Jelly Roll]]'', a 1950 biography of Morton by Alan Lomax.