Postwar Trio Years

After the Trio and the Shop, Rollini starts a third venture, the Driftwood, a fishing lodge on Key Largo, Florida. He has a relaxed life, spending his time on all three ventures as well as on his hobby, fishing. Al Perlis joins the Trio on guitar and records are made for another small label, Bullet, andissued on the new Mercury label. Rollini develops another serious disease, tuberculosis and recovers. He stays in a hospital in New York, but two years later he has a mysterious accident near his lodge and he dies from complications in a hospital in Homestead, Florida. He was survived by Dixie.