translate English to French: "He would give me horn things to write, but sometimes maybe it would be incoherent musically and I would have to straighten it out, so to speak. When it came out of my brain, it would be a lot of James Brown's ideas and my organization.
Après s’être installé à Hollywood en 1981, il assiste Earth, Wind & Fire, Barry White et le Gap Band, et signe des arrangements pour Curtis Mayfield et Terry Callier.