Lucius Reynolds Wyatt (born August 18, 1938) is an American trumpet player, composer and professor.
At Central High School he worked with the bandleader E. C. Christian.
Attending Florida A&M University, he studied with William P. Foster, Johnnie V. Lee, Phillip Cooper, and Lenard C. Bowie, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1959.
[1] He then attended the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Robert V. Sutton, Frederick Fennell, Sidney Mear, and Donald Hunsberger, obtaining his master's degree in 1960.
The title of his dissertation was The Mid-Twentieth-Century Orchestral Variation, 1953-1963; he received his Ph.D. in 1974.