 He loved coaching young people and mentored many of them, many of which now enjoy successful careers in music.Jesse was a humanitarian and gave scores of benefit performances to support and help raise awareness of various causes throughout the world including most recently the Colorado AIDS Project, and Afghan Ed, which helped return young Afghan girls to school after 10 years of oppression by the Taliban.Jesse Ceci died at the age of 82 of Acute Myeloid Leukemia on May 10, 2006 at the Johnson Center, a hospice located in Centennial, Colorado.