Paul G Fredricks was an American brass musician of the Big Bands Era of the 1930s and 1940s.
10 Facts About Paul Fredricks
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Paul Fredricks is known for his unique skills as a trumpeter and left his mark on a range of larger bands such as the orchestras of Alvino Rey, Charlie Spivak, Les Brown's Band of Renown, and Mel Torme's Mel-Tones, in the jazz music scene of the period surrounding World War II.
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Paul Fredricks later ventured off with his own New Orleans-style Dixieland jazz band The Paul Fredricks Orchestra, later The Crescent City Stompers.
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Paul Fredricks was featured in some Hollywood films including A Edward Sutherland and RKO Pictures' Sing Your Worries Away, starring Buddy Ebsen, Patsy Kelly and Bert Lahr.
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Paul Fredricks developed his skills playing on his own and in several local bands as a young boy until he left home at 16 to pursue his dreams in New York City's music scene of the time.
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Paul Fredricks began his professional music career in New York City at the age of 16 playing gigs at the Lincoln Hotel in New York City and the Rustic Cabin in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, a launch pad of Frank Sinatra.
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Paul Fredricks continued playing with big bands before and after the war, during which he voluntarily entered to serve in the United States Army in the Asia-Pacific Arena.
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Paul Fredricks served in the US Army and toured the Asia-Pacific Arena serving his country in a number of roles.
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Paul Fredricks met and married his wife of 57 years, Austrian beauty Theresa Elnicky.
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Paul Fredricks's granddaughter is a fashion model and humanitarian Kate Gibbs.