He was a college student who had been hosting a radio show for two years called Jazzology.
The session consisted of Wild Bill Davison on coronet, Jimmy Archey on trombone, Tony Parenti on clarinet, Art Hodes on piano, Pops Foster on double bass, and Arthur Trappier on drums.
During the 1960s he bought the labels Circle, Jazz Crusade, Icon, Mono, and Southland.
With help from a bank loan and loyal customers, he bought World Transcriptions, a company that since the 1930 had provided prerecorded radio programs to independent jazz stations.
He and his wife lived in the French Quarter and ran the Palm Court Jazz Café.