Dixon first directed the Symphonium Serenaders in the beginning of the 1920s, who were featured on radio broadcasts in as early as 1922.

[8] As of 1933, he played with the house band of the Brooklyn Club Casa Mia, who also included the banjoist Ikey Robinson as a member.

Before Dixon disappeared from the music scene, he worked for June Clark in 1936 and as a cabaret musician in 1940 in New York according to the census for that year, when he lived in Brookhaven on Long Island.

[9] Dixon first married Catherine Cuddy from Rome, Italy on 25 Apr 1925 in Columbus, Ohio.

[11] Dixon later married to Virginia Smith of Sewickley, Pennsylvania on 6 October 1930 in Chicago, Illinois.