Anthony Wonsey

Anthony Wonsey is a hard-bop and post-bop pianist, composer, and arranger originally from Chicago. He earned a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music, where he began performing with Roy Hargrove and Antonio Hart, and was later recruited by drummer Elvin Jones, spending five years in Jones's Jazz Machine after relocating to New York. Mentored by Mulgrew Miller and James Williams, he went on to tour and record with Wallace Roney, Nicholas Payton, Vincent Herring, Jeremy Pelt, and Louis Hayes. He has led his own recordings, beginning with Anthonyology.