Frederick Josiah Grant (1905 – 1986) was a British Guiana-born jazz and calypso musician who played saxophone and clarinet.
In 1937, he moved to England, and worked with several jazz and swing bands, including those led by Joe Appleton, Fela Sowande, Rudolph Dunbar, Johnny Claes, and Cyril Blake.
[1] Immediately after the end of the Second World War, in 1945, he featured with his own band, the West Indian Calypsonians, in concerts organised by record producer Denis Preston, sometimes being billed as "Frederico and the Calypsonians", "Freddy Grant's Demerarians", or "Freddy's Calypso Serenaders".
[3] Grant recorded with calypso star Lord Kitchener, and worked in other bands and in nightclubs in London.
[1] He also appeared on such BBC radio programmes as London Jazz and Calling the West Indies.