Reuben Solomon

British clarinetist, born 1918 in Rangoon, Burma. In the late 1930s organized a cooperative group, The Jive Boys, in Burma. After the Japanese invasion in 1942 evacuated to India, joined Teddy Weatherford at the Grand Hotel in Calcutta. Left Weatherford in 1944, forming a new Jive Boys group. Emigrated to Australia after World War II.