Strong Man - Music

Wynton Kelly December 2 1931 – April 12 1971 Was A Jamaican Born Jazz Pianist Who Spent His Career In The United States. Son Of Jamaican Immigrants Kelly Was Born In Jamaica And Started His Professional Career As A Teenager Initially As A Member Of R&B Groups. After Working With Lee Abrams Cecil Payne Dinah Washington Billie Holiday And Dizzy Gillespie He Is Perhaps Best Known For Working With Trumpeter Miles Davis He Was A Member Of Miles Davis's Quintet From 1959 To 1963. He Appears On Davis' Seminal 1959 Album Kind Of Blue Replacing Bill Evans On The Track "Freddie Freeloader". Kelly Likewise Appears On A Single Track From John Coltrane's Giant Steps Replacing Tommy Flanagan On "Naima".
He Recorded 14 Titles For Blue Note In A Trio 1951 And Worked With Dinah Washington Dizzy Gillespie And Lester Young During 1951-1952. After Serving In The Military Kelly Worked With Dinah Washington 1955–1957 Charles Mingus 1956–1957 And The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band 1957 But He Would Be Most Famous For His Stint With Miles Davis 1959–1963 Recording Such Albums With Him As Kind Of Blue At The Blackhawk And Someday My Prince Will Come. When He Left Davis Kelly Took The Rest Of The Rhythm Section Bassist Paul Chambers And Drummer Jimmy Cobb With Him To Form His Trio.
Kelly Recorded As A Leader For Blue Note Riverside Records Vee-Jay Verve And Milestone. Kelly Had A Daughter Tracy In 1963 With Partner Anne. The Track "Little Tracy" On The LP Comin' In The Back Door Is Named After Kelly's Daughter. Tracy Matisak Is A Now A Philadelphia Television Personality.
Kelly's Second Cousin Bassist Marcus Miller Also Performed With Miles Davis In The 1980s And 1990s. Another Cousin Is Pianist Randy Weston.
Kelly Died In Toronto Canada From An Epileptic Seizure In April 1971. Discography As Leader
1951 Piano Interpretations Blue Note 1958 Piano Riverside 1959 Kelly Blue Riverside 1959 Kelly Great Vee-Jay 1960 Kelly At Midnight Vee-Jay 1961 Wynton Kelly! Vee-Jay 1961 Someday My Prince Will Come Vee-Jay 1963 Comin' In The Back Door Verve 1964 It's All Right! Verve 1965 Undiluted Verve 1965 Smokin' At The Half Note Verve 1965 Blues On Purpose Xanadu 1967 Full View Milestone 1968 Last Trio Session Delmark As Sideman
With Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Things Are Getting Better 1958 Cannonball Adderley Quintet In Chicago 1959 Cannonball Takes Charge 1959 African Waltz 1961 The Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus 1961 With Nat Adderley
Much Brass 1959 That's Right! 1960 Naturally! 1961 With Lorez Alexandria
Alexandria The Great Impulse! 1964 More Of The Great Lorez Alexandria Impulse! 1964 With Gene Ammons
Night Lights 1970 With Walter Benton
Out Of This World Jazzland 1960 With Bob Brookmeyer
Jazz Is A Kick 1960 With Joy Bryan
Make The Man Love Me 1961 With Donald Byrd
Modern Jazz Perspective Columbia 1957 - With Gigi Gryce
Off To The Races Blue Note 1958 With Betty Carter
Out There 1958 With Paul Chambers
Go... 1959 1st Bassman 1960 With James Clay
The Sound Of The Wide Open Spaces!!!! Riverside 1960 With Jimmy Cleveland
Cleveland Style 1957 With John Coltrane
Coltrane Jazz 1961 With King Curtis
The New Scene Of King Curtis 1960 Soul Meeting 1960 With Miles Davis
Kind Of Blue 1959 Someday My Prince Will Come 1961 With Curtis Fuller
The Curtis Fuller Jazztet Savoy 1959 With Dizzy Gillespie
Dee Gee Days The Savoy Sessions Savoy 1951-52 1976 Dizzy And Strings 1954 Dizzy Atmosphere 1957 Birks' Works 1957 Dizzy In Greece 1957 Dizzy Gillespie And Stuff Smith Verve 1957 Dizzy Gillespie At Newport Verve 1957 With Benny Golson
Benny Golson's New York Scene Contemporary 1957 The Modern Touch Riverside 1957 Turning Point Mercury 1962 With Paul Gonsalves
Gettin' Together 1960 With Dexter Gordon
The Jumpin' Blues 1970 With Grant Green
First Session 1960 With Johnny Griffin
Introducing Johnny Griffin 1956 A Blowin' Session Blue Note 1957 With Eddie Harris
Cool Sax Warm Heart Columbia 1964 With Jimmy Heath
The Thumper Riverside 1959 On The Trail Riverside 1964 With Bill Henderson
Bill Henderson Sings 1959 With Joe Henderson
Four 1968 Straight No Chaser 1968 With Ernie Henry
Seven Standards And A Blues Riverside 1957 Last Chorus Riverside 1957 With Billie Holiday
Lady Sings The Blues 1956 With Helen Humes
Swingin' With Humes 1961 With Illinois Jacquet
The Blues That's Me 1969 With Eddie Jefferson
Letter From Home 1962 With J. J. Johnson
The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 1954 With Philly Joe Jones
Drums Around The World Riverside 1959 Together! Atlantic 1961 - With Elvin Jones
With Sam Jones
The Chant Riverside 1961 Down Home Riverside 1962 With Roland Kirk
Domino 1962 With Steve Lacy
Soprano Sax 1957 With Abbey Lincoln
That's Him! Riverside 1957 It's Magic Riverside 1958 Abbey Is Blue Riverside 1959 With Booker Little
Booker Little 1960 With Johnny Lytle
The Loop Tuba 1965 New And Groovy Tuba 1966 With Chuck Mangione
Recuerdo 1962 With Blue Mitchell
Big 6 1958 Blue Soul 1959 Blue's Moods 1960 A Sure Thing 1962 With Hank Mobley
Peckin' Time 1958 Soul Station 1960 Roll Call 1961 Workout 1961 Another Workout 1961 With Milt Jackson And Wes Montgomery
Bags Meets Wes! 1961 With Wes Montgomery
Full House 1962 Smokin' At The Half Note 1965 With Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan Vol.3 1957 Here's Lee Morgan 1960 With Mark Murphy
Rah 1961 With David Newman
Staight Ahead 1960 With Art Pepper
Gettin' Together 1960 With Sonny Red
Out Of The Blue 1959 With Dizzy Reece
Star Bright 1959 With Wayne Shorter
Introducing Wayne Shorter Vee-Jay 1959 With Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins Vol. 1 1956 Newk's Time Blue Note 1957 With Don Sleet
All Members 1961 With Frank Strozier
Fantastic Frank Strozier 1959 With Art Taylor
A.T.'s Delight Blue Note 1960 With Clark Terry
Serenade To A Bus Seat Riverside 1957 With Teri Thornton
Devil May Care Riverside 1961 With Phil Upchurch
Feeling Blue 1967 With Dinah Washington
Back To The Blues 1962 read less