Will Quintrell (?-1946) was an Australian bandleader, music director, conductor and composer. active from the 1910s through the 1940s. Will Quintrell’s father led a brass band in South Australia and later formed his eight children into a concert group. Will eventually studied music formerly and after a period in Broken Hill toured the East for Maurice Bandmann. He became music director at the Tivoli Theatre, Adelaide (1911-). However, he spent most of his career at Sydney's Tivoli Theatre (1914-1932). By the end of the decade he was conducting Hoyts’ Regent Orchestras in Sydney and Brisbane. He also directed 2SM’s “Stage Door Canteen” programme. Moreover, he performed at the Regent Theatres in Brisbane and Sydney, as well as at Melbourne's Williamson Theatre (-1946). The fourth photograph shows Will Quintrell and The Royal Syncopators, his band resident at Sydney's Regent Theatre. Left to right: Back row - Dick Porter - trumpet ; middle row - Keith Lester - horn ; Bill Smith - sax ; Sammy Cope - drums ; Frank Bull - piano. Front row: Will Quintrell - leader ; Will James - banjo (father of Barbara James) ; Jock Thompson - sax ; clarinet -?. This excellent record was made in 1928. Vocal by Len Maurice.