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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 ship's 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>
== Later life ==
== Later life ==
In August of 1940, Purvis was conditionally pardoned from prison, but he quickly broke his parole and was sent back to prison for six more years.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref> Some sources claim he did this deliberately because he missed the prison band.<ref>''1930's Jazz - The Small Combos'', Columbia Jazz Masterpieces CD booklet, Michael Brooks, pages 3 and 1987</ref>
In August 1940, Purvis was conditionally pardoned from prison, but he quickly broke his parole and was sent back to prison for six more years.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref> Some sources claim he did this deliberately because he missed the prison band.<ref>''1930's Jazz - The Small Combos'', Columbia Jazz Masterpieces CD booklet, Michael Brooks, pages 3 and 1987</ref>
On September 30, 1946 Purvis was was released from prison one last time.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref> He had a wild reputation and is said to have set hotel rooms on fire.<ref>''Black Beauty, White Heat:A Pictural History of Classic Jazz'', Frank Driggs & Harris Lewine, Da Capo Press, New York, 1995, page 103</ref> He seldom stuck with one band for very long and was known to hit the streets as a busker. From this time onward he worked at non-musical careers which included working as a [[chef]], an [[aviator]] in [[Florida]], a [[carpenter]], an [[radio]] repair-man in San Franscisco.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref> At sometime in his checkered life he was also a [[mercenary]] in South America.<ref>''Black Beauty, White Heat:A Pictural History of Classic Jazz'', Frank Driggs & Harris Lewine, Da Capo Press, New York, 1995, page 103</ref>
On September 30, 1946 Purvis was was released from prison one last time.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref> He had a wild reputation and is said to have set hotel rooms on fire.<ref>''Black Beauty, White Heat:A Pictural History of Classic Jazz'', Frank Driggs & Harris Lewine, Da Capo Press, New York, 1995, page 103</ref> He seldom stuck with one band for very long and was known to hit the streets as a busker. From this time onward he worked at non-musical careers which included working as a [[chef]], an [[aviator]] in [[Florida]], a [[carpenter]], an [[radio]] repair-man in San Franscisco.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref> At sometime in his checkered life he was also a [[mercenary]] in South America.<ref>''Black Beauty, White Heat:A Pictural History of Classic Jazz'', Frank Driggs & Harris Lewine, Da Capo Press, New York, 1995, page 103</ref>
Purvis is suppose to have killed himself in [[San Francisco, California]] on March 30, 1962, however stories persist that a man who looked like Jack Purvis showed up at a band date by cornetist [[Jack Goodwin]] and the two men had a long talk about his life on two occasions in 1968.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref> <ref>''Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915 to 1945, Richard M. Sudhalter, Oxford University Press, 1999, pages 470 & 471</ref>
Purvis is suppose to have killed himself in [[San Francisco, California]] on March 30, 1962, however stories persist that a man who looked like Jack Purvis showed up at a band date by cornetist [[Jack Goodwin]] and the two men had a long talk about his life on two occasions in 1968.<ref>''The Classic Jazz'', Backbeat Books, [[Scott Yanow]], 2001</ref><ref>''Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915 to 1945, Richard M. Sudhalter, Oxford University Press, 1999, pages 470 & 471</ref>
== References ==
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