 In 1957 he became a staff musician for the American Broadcasting Company.He went on to play in The Tonight Show Band and can be heard on the Miles Davis albums "Miles Ahead" (1957), "Porgy and Bess" (1958), and "Sketches of Spain" (1960).A resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, Royal died of cancer at age 61 at Mount Sinai Hospital on March 16, 1983.