with Henry Goodwin and Sandy Williams among the members of the band. He undertook many equally obscure engagements, but played with prominent ad hoc all-star bands for Eddie Condon’s first concert at Town Hall ( 21 February 1942 ) and for later such concerts at Town Hall and the Ritz Theater ( 1944–5 ), and in 1945 in Boston became involved in a notoriously contentious stand as a co-leader with Bunk Johnson. He held several residencies at Jimmy Ryan’s in New York, where his sidemen included the pianist Lloyd Phillips and Freddie Moore in 1947 , and Big Chief Russell
