The celebrated percussionist passes away in a psychiatric facility following four decades of incarceration

Gordon’s life was not normal, but he was imprisoned for about 40 years in a mental hospital, after he killed his mother after suffering from a schizophrenia episode.

And his manager Bob Marlis announced in a statement on Tuesday that Jim Jordan, who was famous in the sixties and seventies of the last century with the biggest names in rock music, died of natural causes at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, pointing out that Jim became in eternal rest after his long suffering in prison. And an eternal battle with mental illness. (etc)