Following this, he played with leaders Buddy Collette (1955)[2] Hampton Hawes (1955), André Previn (1955), Barney Kessel (1956), Herb Geller, Jack Sheldon.
[3][4] Tenor saxophonist Jack Laird hired him for an engagement at Club El Sereno in East LA (with pianist Franck Patchen).
In St Louis in August 1961, he recorded 3 live dates with Webster Young, Shirley Horn,[8] and Johnny Hartman.
[9] A New York resident in the late sixties, he took part in Roswell Rudd's Primordial group, with Enrico Rava (no official recording)[10] On November 2 1971, he was with Gary McFarland and writer, editor David Burnett at Club 55 in New York City, when they got served drinks filled with liquid methadone, which provoked seizure due to overdose.
[14] His recordings mostly feature him with piano-led trio and show an accomplished accompanist, with a solid tempo and technicality, typical of the drumming style in the mid-fifties.