 Despite performances from such artists as jazz pianist Joe Sample, the album sold only 12,000 copies.Frustrated with the business, Ross retired from music in the early 1980s, returning to Detroit, where he lived in seclusion, even from family members.During the weekend of June 22–23, 1996, police found the decaying bodies of Ross and his wife, Patricia Ann Robinson, in a basement inside a dilapidated home in Oak Park, Michigan, a suburb bordering Detroit, known for its homicides and violent crime.