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Tom Wilson (producer)

Tom Wilson
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Tom Wilson (right) with Bob Dylan (left), recording "Like a Rolling Stone", 1965
Background information
Birth name Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr.
Born (1931-03-25)March 25, 1931
Origin Waco, Texas, USA
Died September 6, 1978(1978-09-06) (aged 47)
Los Angeles
Genres Rock, folk rock, jazz, experimental
Occupation(s) Record producer
Years active 1956–1978
Labels Transition
Savoy Records
Columbia Records
Verve
Audio Fidelity Records
Dauntless International
Associated acts The Velvet Underground
Bob Dylan
Sun Ra
Cecil Taylor
The Mothers of Invention
Soft Machine
Eric Burdon and the Animals
Simon & Garfunkel
The Clancy Brothers
Elmo Hope
Website ProducerTomWilson.com (unofficial)

Thomas Blanchard "Tom" Wilson Jr. (March 25, 1931 – September 6, 1978) was an American record producer best known for his work in the 1960s with Bob Dylan, the Mothers of Invention, Simon and Garfunkel, the Velvet Underground, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Eddie Harris, Nico, Eric Burdon & the Animals, the Blues Project, the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, and others.

Wilson was born on March 25, 1931 to Thomas Blanchard and Fannie Odessa (Brown) Wilson. He grew up in Waco, Texas, where he attended A.J. Moore High School, and was a member of New Hope Baptist Church. He was known by his initials, T.B., in his youth. While attending Fisk University, Wilson was invited to Harvard University where he became involved with the Harvard New Jazz Society and radio station WHRB; to the latter he later credited all of his success in the music business.

On graduating from Harvard, he borrowed $900 to set up Transition Records, having a goal in mind of setting up a record label and recording the most advanced jazz musicians of the day. The label released about a dozen albums, including Sun Ra's Jazz By Sun Ra (retitled Sun Song when reissued in 1968), which was Ra's first LP (a second LP of Transition material was unreleased until 1968), and the album Jazz Advance by Cecil Taylor, which was Taylor's debut release. Transition also released the first sessions led by Doug Watkins, Donald Byrd, and Herb Pomeroy. The label went bankrupt in 1957 and the catalog was sold off to the Blue Note and Delmark labels. Wilson's work with Transition Records helped him obtain a job with United Artists Records in 1957. He went on to work as a producer for various jazz labels, including Savoy Records, for whom he again recorded Sun Ra in 1961.


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