 In the mid and late 1910s he performed with some of the first jazz bands in Chicago and New York City, including Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland, the Original Dixieland Jass Band, and the Louisiana Five.He made his Broadway debut in the Florenz Ziegfeld Follies in 1918.Frisco was a mainstay on the vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and 1930s.