Wynton Marsalis is the most famed member of a New Orleans musical dynasty. Born in 1961 to prominent jazz pianist and teacher Ellis Marsalis, he was named for another jazz great, pianist Wynton Kelly, and he got his first trumpet at age 6 from another famed trumpeter, Al Hirt.
Florence Beatrice Price was a daughter of a music teacher and of the only black dentist in Little Rock, Arkansas, where they had settled after losing their home and business in the great Chicago fire.