He was a teacher for a long time. He tells a marvelous story about Benny Carter coming through Florida, and he sent word for Benny to come over to where he was playing, you know? So he looked up and this fellow walked in and sit down at the table right under and everything, had a case with him. Ordered something to drink and was sitting there and listening. And finally he reached and pulled out his alto and put it together, and come up on stage and he says, "Benny couldn't come but he sent me," Porter Kilburn. He said when Porter got through with him he said "well I guess I better go back and practice some more. " "Benny couldn't come" he says. Cannon told that himself, really.