Original: Around 1948 he moved to California and worked with the Frankie Ortega Trio in Las Vegas and at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach for 11 years.
Simplified: He moved to Burbank, California in the 1940s and worked as a musician in Alhambra, California at Dick Whites Rickeys Lounge, starting in 1957 with Paul Peters and Stan Seltzer.