Facts: - instrument: saxophone - years active: 1948 -- 1957 - caption: fats tadd dameron . navarro , charlie rouse , ernie henry and - label: riverside - death date: 29 december 1957 - genre: jazz - birth date: 03 september 1926 - name: ernie henry - background: non_vocal_instrumentalist - image: fats tadd dameron -lrb- gottlieb 06541 -rrb- . jpg navarro , charlie rouse , ernie henry , - occupation: musician Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ernie henry .
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ernie henry -lrb- september 3 , 1926 -- december 29 , 1957 -rrb- was an american jazz saxophonist .henry played in the late 1940s with tadd dameron -lrb- 1947 -rrb- , fats navarro , charlie ventura , max roach , and dizzy gillespie -lrb- 1948 -- 49 -rrb- .from 1950 to 1952 he played in the band of illinois jacquet .after a few years in the shadows , he returned to play with thelonious monk -lrb- 1956 -rrb- , charles mingus , kenny dorham , kenny drew , wynton kelly , wilbur ware , art taylor , philly joe jones and gillespie again -lrb- 1956 -- 57 -rrb- .he recorded three albums as a leader for the riverside label shortly before his death at the end of 1957 .he died of a heroin overdose at age 31 .