Fact #49360
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Brilliant young jazz bassist Doug Watkins, who played with Kenny Dorham, Horace Silver, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Hank Mobley, falls asleep at the wheel and dies in a car crash near Holbrook, Arizona, USA, while en route to San Francisco to meet drummer Philly Joe Jones for a gig.
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