Editing Johnny Hodges (section)

==Death==
Hodges's last performances were at the [[Imperial Room]] in Toronto, less than a week before his May 11, 1970, death from a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]], suffered during a visit to the office of a dental surgeon. His last recordings are featured on the ''[[New Orleans Suite]]'', which was only half-finished when he died. He was married twice; he had a daughter by his first wife, Bertha Pettiford, and a son (John C. Hodges II) and a daughter (Lorna Lee) by his second wife, Edith Cue.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EaYDAAAAMBAJ|title=Saxophonist Johnny Hodges Leaves $86,000 Estate To His Widow And Children.|date=December 28, 1972|work=JET|access-date=March 28, 2018}}</ref>

The loss of Hodges's sound prompted Ellington, upon learning of the musician's death from a heart attack, to lament to ''[[Jet (magazine)|JET]]'' magazine: "The band will never sound the same without Johnny." In Ellington's eulogy of Hodges, he said: "Never the world's most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyes—this was Johnny Hodges. This ''is'' Johnny Hodges."<ref>{{cite book |title=Music Is My Mistress |last=Ellington |first=Duke |author-link=Duke Ellington |year=1973 |publisher=Da Capo |location=New York |isbn=0-306-80033-0 |page=119}}</ref>