 He died aged 74 in 2014.He changed his name to Idris Muhammad in the 1960s upon his conversion to Islam.Speaking of his name change, he later noted in an interview with Modern Drummer magazine, "One guy told me that if I changed my name, I was going to have a problem because no one would know that Leo Morris and Idris Muhammad were the same guy...But I thought, well, if I stay the same person, then people will know it’s me.