Tom Wilson

Best known for his work in the 1960s with Teri Thornton, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Simon & Garfunkel and The Velvet Underground.

Wilson started the Harvard New Jazz Society in 1953 and founded Transition Records in 1955 on which he released his own jazz album in the same year. He was also a jazz lecturer during this time and supervised many jazz concerts and seminars.
In December 1958, he joined the A & R staff at United Artists Records to produce jazz LP's. Later, he A&R'd at Transition where he started their subsidiary Transition, and in 1967 he started Transition who produced releases for Transition.

Born: March 25, 1931 in Waco, Texas
Died: September 6, 1978 in Los Angeles, California