A Tale of Two Wyntons

How the music of Wynton Kelly and Wynton Marsalis shaped my life before I ever knew it.

My Name Was a Prophecy: Wynton Kelly and the Weight of Inheritance

Long before I was born, my father knew that he would have a son and that he would name him Wynton after his favorite jazz pianist, Wynton Kelly. A lot of research has been dedicated to how deeply our names influence us from birth. Not only do people grow into their names and live up to th…