Wyatt was born into a musical family, the sixth of seven kids. His mother, a classically trained pianist and church organist, was his first teacher. Wyatt also learned to play trumpet in the public school system of Lee’s Summit, MO. While in high school, Wyatt began playing in bands and writing songs. At University, Wyatt was introduced to a wider influence of music, including blues, jazz and reggae. After college Wyatt moved to Kansas City, MO where he began to participate in weekly jams and forming bands to play out professionally.

 

Kansas City is known as a blues town, and Wyatt was hired as a sideman for a number of blues groups in town, playing with local blues artists, Provine “Little Hatch” Hatchford, Jaisson Taylor, who was 2020 inductee to the Kansas Music Hall of Fame, Pat Recob, and Michael Bourne. Wyatt also played and toured with the Woody Davis Group. Woody was a blues drummer from Chicago and played for many years in Kansas City and regionally.

 

Wyatt has also been heavily involved in recording session work, songwriting, arranging and producing. He has over 70 songs published and has released two volumes of original music including , “Walk It Like You Talk It” by the Urbanites (co-produced by Wyatt, Max Berry and Jaisson Taylor), are recordings of original reggae, soul and funk. Wyatt’s second release, “Falling and Flying,” is an album of Americana, country and gospel.

 

In 2015, Wyatt’s jazz composition, “Voile Chatoyante,” (Shimmering Sail) was picked for the top ten favorite songs of that year by Mark Manning’s Wednesday Midday Medley radio program on 90.1 KKFI. That same year, DJ Jason Vivone of the “Boogie Bridge” radio program also picked a West original, the New Orleans influenced “Grandma Bertie’s Surprise Birthday Party” for his top ten of the year.