 He led his first band, Dig's Half Dozen, in 1971 and recorded in 1973 with Alex Welsh.Four years later he was a member of the band Velvet with Ike Isaacs, Len Skeat, and Denny Wright, then a member of the Midnite Follies Orchestra and the Pizza Express All-Stars.In the early 1980s, he started a band that performed music by Nat Gonella.