His mother,Sonya Carson, raised Ben and his older brother on her own.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Winslow's older brother Charles went to Harvard University in Cambridge.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

His interest in jazz came from his older brother Ben, as well as the music of Dave Brubeck,Herbie Hancock and Oscar Peterson.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

"My mother was a teenage mother, at the age of 16, with my older brother,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04