[1] At Wilberforce he played with Edgar Hayes and Horace Henderson (1924–1928) as a member of the Collegians band.
[1] He recovered and formed his own group in 1935, recording one session as a leader;[1] sidemen included Ward Pinkett, Albert Nicholas and Bernard Addison.
[1] In later years he worked in songwriting, disc jockeying, and in music press, and became a deputy sheriff in Fort Worth.
Stanley Dance, writing about a concert played by Ellington and Sarah Vaughan, said There was a good crowd in the huge auditorium that night ...
Deputy Sheriff Freddy Jenkins came in dressed Texas style with a big hat on his head and gun on hip.