 He was stationed in Munich, and he started sitting in on the sessions that were going on there, a club called the Orlando, a GI jazz club in Munich. He was discharged, and he studied percussion and rediscovered his Latin roots, jamming with Charlie Parker, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Gene Ammons, they used to call him Jug, Cannonball Adderley, Freddie Hubbard, Lockjaw Davis,