Freddy Martin

Freddy Martin's 1952 Muntz Road Jet

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Freddy Martin was a renowned tenor saxophonist and famed orchestra leader who pioneered the Tenor Sax Band style of the 1930s. Martin enjoyed a career that spanned more than fifty years working with and alongside many of the luminaries of his day. Christened ‘Mr. Silvertone’ by Saxophonist Johnny Hodges, through the Forties he became ‘Mr. Silver Screen’ as his band featured on a number of Hollywood movies including - ‘Seven Day’s Leave’ ‘Stage Door Canteen’ and ‘Melody Time’. Later he would be involved in all manner of projects, he was for example the Musical director when Elvis Presley first played Vegas and his orchestra became the house band at the Los Angeles Coconut Grove in 1969. He was also a noted car ‘nut’.

In the Fifties, Martin was at the height of his fame, he even had his own TV show, and in the same way that he gave his own unique style to music and was known to have been a fan of the custom car movement. It’s not at all surprising that one of Mad Muntz’s Jets would have appealed to him in the first place. He bought a brand new Muntz in 1952.

Freddy Martin's Cars

Freddy Martin's 1952 Muntz Road Jet