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Stanley Brian Reynolds was born on January 16, 1926 in Lincoln, England. He began his musical career when he toured with the Tommy Sampson Orchestra at age 14. By 1948, he was playing with Ted Heath and His Music, and from the 1950s, he also worked with Vic Lewis, Dave Shepherd, Kenny Baker, Johnny Keating, Louie Bellson and Buddy Rich.

As a session musician, he was involved as a soloist on the Beatles’ White Album with a trumpet solo in Martha My Dear. In 1975, under his own name he created his own big band album, The Greatest Swing Band in the World…is British (PYE).

In the 1980s, he worked with Barbara Thompson and Chris Smith. In the field of jazz he was involved in 84 recording sessions between 1948 and 1989,

Trumpeter Stan Reynolds died on April 14, 2018. at age 92.

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