Career
He started on clarinet and worked in Bermuda and on Canadian cruise ships before taking up saxophone. As a key soloist in the society band of the pianist Milton McPherson, he became a leading tenor saxophonist in Jamaica. In 1945, he moved to England to join Jiver Hutchinson, with whom he remained for five years and made tours of India and Europe.
He then worked in Cambridge with the trumpeter Ken Turner.
With Cab Kaye he toured Belgium and the Netherlands (1950-1951), after which he rejoined Hutchinson to tour Sweden and worked with Joe Harriott.
