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He moved to California and was successful with radio broadcasting work.<ref>''Rhythm on Record; who's Who and register of recorded Dance Music, 1906/1936, Melody Maker Ltd., Hilton Schleman, 1936, page 201</ref> In Los Angeles, Purvis worked for the George Stall Orchestra as a writer and even worked for [[Warner Brothers]] arranging. He composed ''Legends of Haiti'' for a one hundred and ten piece orchestra. Afterwards he found work in San Francisco as a chef.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref>

He moved to California and was successful with radio broadcasting work.<ref>''Rhythm on Record; who's Who and register of recorded Dance Music, 1906/1936, Melody Maker Ltd., Hilton Schleman, 1936, page 201</ref> In Los Angeles, Purvis worked for the George Stall Orchestra as a writer and even worked for [[Warner Brothers]] arranging. He composed ''Legends of Haiti'' for a one hundred and ten piece orchestra. Afterwards he found work in San Francisco as a chef.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref>

At the end of 1935 he joined Frank Froeba's Swing Band in New York.<ref>''Rhythm on Record; who's Who and register of recorded Dance Music, 1906/1936, Melody Maker Ltd., [[Hilton Schleman|Hilton R. Schleman]], 1936, page 201</ref> These 1935 recordings with Froeba were the end of Purvis' recording career.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref> <ref>''1930's Jazz - The Small Combos'', Columbia Jazz Masterpieces CD booklet, Michael Brooks, pages 3 and 1987</ref> He played a couple of weeks with Joe Haymes' orchestra and then disappears from history for a couple of years. It is speculated that he worked as a ships cook on a freighter at the time.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref>

At the end of 1935 he joined Frank Froeba's Swing Band in New York.<ref>''Rhythm on Record; who's Who and register of recorded Dance Music, 1906/1936, Melody Maker Ltd., [[Hilton Schleman|Hilton R. Schleman]], 1936, page 201</ref> These 1935 recordings with Froeba were the end of Purvis' recording career.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref> <ref>''1930's Jazz - The Small Combos'', Columbia Jazz Masterpieces CD booklet, Michael Brooks, pages 3 and 1987</ref> He played a couple of weeks with Joe Haymes' orchestra and then disappears from history for a couple of years. It is speculated that he worked as a ship's cook on a freighter at the time.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref>

He was arrested in Texas in June 1937, while working as a cook, for his involvement in a robbery in El Paso, Texas. He was tried and convicted and sentenced to jail time in Huntsville Prison.<ref>''1930's Jazz - The Small Combos'', Columbia Jazz Masterpieces CD booklet, Michael Brooks, pages 3 and 1987</ref> While in prison he directed the Rhythmic Swingsters, the prison band and also played piano with them. The band regularly broadcast on radio station WBAP in 1938.<ref>''Black Beauty, White Heat:A Pictural History of Classic Jazz'', Frank Driggs & Harris Lewine, Da Capo Press, New York, 1995, page 103</ref> <ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref>

He was arrested in Texas in June 1937, while working as a cook, for his involvement in a robbery in El Paso, Texas. He was tried and convicted and sentenced to jail time in Huntsville Prison.<ref>''1930's Jazz - The Small Combos'', Columbia Jazz Masterpieces CD booklet, Michael Brooks, pages 3 and 1987</ref> While in prison he directed the Rhythmic Swingsters, the prison band and also played piano with them. The band regularly broadcast on radio station WBAP in 1938.<ref>''Black Beauty, White Heat:A Pictural History of Classic Jazz'', Frank Driggs & Harris Lewine, Da Capo Press, New York, 1995, page 103</ref> <ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref>