Tommy Reynolds (born Thomas Anthony Rinaldo, January 17, 1917 – September 30, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader.
[1] He studied at the University of Akron, worked briefly with Ben Pollack, and then became a member of the orchestra of Isham Jones in 1937, where he remained for two years.
[3] Reynolds also appeared at the Roseland Ballroom and the Paramount Hotel in New York, The Apollo in Harlem, Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook in New Jersey, the Bandbox in Chicago, and the Palladium in Hollywood.
[4] Reynolds recorded with his bands for the labels Columbia, Vocalion, Atlantic and Okeh; Mary Ann McCall was one of his vocalists.
Reynolds was able to keep his big band in the 1950s, with musicians such as Serge Chaloff, Dewey Jackson, Urbie Green, and Fats Navarro.