His drug problems kept him off the scene and out of the studio. Maybe I feel his health problems were brought about do to his drug problems.
"Tina was also one of many who had a chronic drug habit. The inevitable short hospital and prison stays would keep him off the music scene intermittently. Tina Brooks died on August 13, 1974 of kidney failure or, as Beener put it, 'general dissipation.' He had been very ill and unable to play the saxophone for several years." Tina Brooks