Wim Wigt

Willem (Wim) Wigt, (Utrecht, October 13, 1944) is a Dutch artist manager, promoter, producer and founder of the record label Timeless Records.

Born in Utrecht in 1944, Wigt went on to study non-western sociology at the Landbouwuniversiteit in Wageningen during the early 1970s. As member of the student union he began organising jazzconcerts in the local theatre and around town. The invited mostly American musicians, requested Wigt to arrange more performances. With the help of fellow students, among them his later wife Ria Wigt, he started to develop small tours throughout the Netherlands and abroad. In 1974 Wigt decided to quit his studies and fully focus on his now thriving music business. In the years that followed, Wigt organised countless European tours with, to name a few, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Toots Thielemans, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Pharoah Sanders, Machito, Lonnie Donegan, Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson. Next to he would on occasion organise events with Dionne Warwick, Chuck Berry, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Dave Brubeck, Sarah Vaughan, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, George Benson, Nina Simone, André Rieu and many others.