Wynton Kelly (December 2, 1931 ? 1971) was an American jazz pianist who grew up in Brooklyn. Kelly started his professional career as a teenager, initially as a member of R&B groups. After working with Lee Abrams, Cecil Payne, Dinah Washington and Dizzy Gillespie[LINK: http://www.downbeat.com/artists/window.asp?action=new&aid=572&aname=Wynton+Kelly] Down Beat Profile, he was a member of Miles Davis's Quintet from 1959 to 1963. He appears on Davis's seminal 1959 album Kind of Blue, replacing Bill Evans on the track Freddie Freeloader (with Davis asking Kelly to sound more like Ahmad Jamal). He likewise appears on a single track from John Coltrane's Giant Steps, replacing Tommy Flanagan on "Naima". Miles Davis described Wynton Kelly as a "hybrid" of Red Garland and Bill Evans. This is a very accurate description of Kelly by his former bandleader, as Kelly played with an underlying driving rhythm, (

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