| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - During this time he experimented with arranging, writing for the stage band, where he met such players as Wild Bill Davis, Harold Land, and Roy Porter.He was drafted into the army in 1942 (spending some time with the army boxing team) and was discharged about a year later.In late 1943 he joined the Russell Jacquet orchestra in Houston, and he spent much of 1944 playing the band of Frank Humphries.
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