Fred Wesley was born on 4 July 1943 and grew up in Mobile Alabama. His musical career started at the age of three on the piano because his grandmother, with whom he spent a great many of his formative years, was a piano teacher. She had him playing scales and pieces such as the Minute Waltz and Rachmaninoff's Prelude in D-Minor. He never really wanted to play the piano because his musical aspirations were elsewhere. His father, Fred Wesley Sr., was a musician who ran his own big band that played tunes like The Hucklebuck, Open The Door, Richarc J, Little Red Top and other tunes by Louis Jordan. Fred Sr. was also the chair of the music department in the Mobile Central High School where the young Fred later attended. The horn players in the big band used to go to his father's house for rehearsal and it was the trombone player Harry Freeman that caught the attention of the young Fred. 
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