Spoiler : Born 4/5/1926; died 4/19/2005 of complications from surgery for jaw cancer at a hospital in Van Nuys, California. Jazz drummer that began his career in Philadelphia during the early 1940s working in Dizzy Gillespie's band. Later he moved to New York until the early 1950s where he performed with bands of Oscar Pettiford; Woody Herman; Benny Goodman; Stan Kenton. In 1954 he settled in Los Angeles, California where he worked as a studio musician on numerous record albums, in films and on television sountracks.