- Jazz musician: played vibraphone, piano and drums.
- He grew up in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts where his brother, a self taught pianist, in the Fats Waller School tutored him. He left the local polka band scene to New York City to study music at Juilliard School.
- He left the music business in the 1960s and took his schooner to the Eastern Caribbean where he became a Charter Boat captain, transporting people and cargo. He lived in Antigua until he returned to New York City in the early 1980s.
- He is survived by his niece, Gail Aronow.
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