1955
Herb Pomeroy
Jazz in a Stable
Transition TRLP 1
Johnny Windhurst
Jazz at Columbus Ave.
Transition TRLP 2
Russell Woollen
Flute Quartet
Transition TRLP C-1
Sam Gary
Sam Gary Sings
Transition TRLP F-1
Donald Byrd
Byrd’s Eye View
Transition TRLP 4
Pepper Adams
Quintet Introducing Curtis Fuller (alternate title: Salt and Pepper)
Transition TRLP 8 (unissued)
1956
Donald Byrd
Byrd Jazz (rec. 1955)
Transition TRLP 5
Lovey Powell and Brooks Morton
Lovelady, Upstairs at the Duplex
Transition TRLP M-1
Sun Ra
Jazz by Sun Ra (retitled Sun Song for reissue)
Transition TRLP 10
reissue: Delmark DL 411
Dave Coleman
(untitled sessions; reportedly erased except for one track)
Transition TRLP 12 (unissued)
Russell Woollen
Quartet for Flute and Strings
Transition TRLP 15
Jay Migliori
Jazz Down Beat (provisional title)
Transition TRLP 18 (unissued)
Cecil Taylor (w/Steve Lacy, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Charles)
Jazz Advance
Transition TRLP 19
Doug Watkins
Watkins at Large
Transition TRLP 20
Dartmouth Indian Chiefs
Chiefly Jazz
Transition TRLP 23
Fran Thorne
Piano Reflections
Transition TRLP 27
1957
Lucky Thompson
Lucky Strikes!
Transition TRLP 21
Sun Ra and the Arkestra
Sound of Joy (unissued tracks rec. 1956 for Transition)
Delmark DS 414
Donald Byrd
Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill (rec. 1956)
Transition TRLP 17
Various Artists
Jazz in Transition
Transition TRLP 30
Paul Chambers
Chambers Music: A Delegation from the East
Jazz West JWLP 7
1958
Louis Smith
Here Comes Louis Smith
Blue Note BLP 1584
Booker Little 4 and Max Roach
The Defiant Ones
United Artists UAS 5034
1959
Brock Peters
At the Village Gate
United Artists UAL 3062
Cecil Taylor featuring John Coltrane
Stereo Drive (mono: Hard Driving Jazz, reissued under Coltrane’s name in 1963 as Coltrane Time )
United Artists UAL 4014
Curtis Fuller
Sliding Easy
United Artists UAL 4041
Johnny Rae’s Afro-Jazz Septet
Herbie Mann’s African Suite
United Artists UAL 4042
Cecil Taylor Trio and Quintet
Love For Sale
United Artists UAL 4046
Randy Weston
Live at the Five Spot
United Artists UAL 4066
Art Farmer
Brass Shout
United Artists UAL 4079
Thad Jones, Billy Mitchell, Al Grey, et al.
Motor City Scene
United Artists UAL 5025
Various Artists – Young Men from Memphis
Down Home Reunion
United Artists UAS 5029
John McFarland
Provocatif
United Artists UAL 5043
1960
Booker Ervin Quintet
Cookin’
Savoy MG 12154
1961
Bill Barron
The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron
Savoy MG 12160
Barbara Long
The Voice of Barbara Long
Savoy MG 12161
Bill Barron
Modern Windows
Savoy MG 12163
Sun Ra
The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Savoy MG 12169
The Bill Hardman Quintet
Saying Something
Savoy MG 12170
Herbie Mann
Gone Native
Savoy MG 12175
Booker Ervin
Down in the Dumps
Savoy SJL 1119
1962
Herbie Mann
St. Thomas
United Artists Jazz UAJS 15022
Various (arr. & cond. Benny Golson)
Pop + Jazz = Swing
Audio Fidelity AFLP 1978
Perry Robinson
Funk Dumpling
Savoy MG 12177
Various Artists
Sit-In Songs: Songs of the Freedom Riders
Dauntless Records DM 4301
1963
Teri Thornton
Sings Somewhere in the Night
Dauntless Records DM 4306 (Stereo 6306)
Sal Salvador
You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet
Dauntless Records DM 4307 (Stereo 6307)
Steve Kuhn & Toshiko Akiyoshi
The Country & Western Sounds of Jazz Pianos
Dauntless Records DM 4308 (Stereo 6308)
Roz Croney
How Low Can You Go?
Dauntless Records DM 4309 (Stereo 6309)
Babs Gonzales
Sunday Afternoon with Babs Gonzales at Small’s Paradise
Dauntless Records DM 4311 (Stereo 6311)
Bill Barron
West Side Story Bossa Nova
Dauntless Records DM 4312 (Stereo 6312)
Walt Dickerson Quartet
Jazz Impressions of Lawrence of Arabia
Dauntless Records DM 4313 (Stereo 6313)
Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Columbia CS 8786
Various Artists
Introducing the Sweet Chariot (The Sensational New Pop Gospel Club with “Soul”)
Columbia CL 2061
John Coltrane
Coltrane Time
United Artists UAJS 15001 (reissue of Cecil Taylor’s 1959 Hard Driving Jazz)
Various Artists
Shoutin’, Wailin’, Hard Drivin’ Pop Gospel (Recorded Live at the Sweet Chariot)
Columbia 8862
The Herman Stevens Singers
Everybody’s Shoutin’ Gospel (Recorded Live at the Sweet Chariot)
Epic 26062
Teri Thornton
Sings ‘Open Highway’
Columbia 8894
1964
Patty Waters
You Thrill Me (2006 comp; Wilson produced three 1964 tracks for Columbia demo)
Water 137
Bob Dylan
The Times They Are a-Changin’
Columbia CS 8905
Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Columbia CS 8993
Bill Barron and Ted Curson
Now, Hear This!
Audio Fidelity AFLP 2123 (recorded 1963)
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
The First Hurrah!
Columbia CL 2165 (CS 8965)
The Pilgrims
Just Arrived!
Columbia 9033
Simon & Garfunkel
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Columbia CS 9049
Pete Seeger
In Concert – I Can See a New Day
Columbia CS 9057
Eddie Harris
Cool Sax, Warm Heart
Columbia 8968
Eddie Harris
Here Comes the Judge
Columbia 9681
Eddie Harris
Cool Sax from Hollywood to Broadway
Columbia CL 2295 / CS 9095
1965
Benny Golson
Just Jazz
Audio Fidelity AFLP 2150 (probably recorded 1962-63)
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
Recorded Live in Ireland
Columbia CL 2265 (CS 9065)
Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Columbia CS 9128
Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited
Columbia CS 9189
Wilson produced only the track “Like a Rolling Stone”
Walt Dickerson Quartet (w/Sun Ra)
Impressions of a Patch of Blue
MGM Records SE 4358
Herbie Mann
Latin Mann (Afro to Bossa to Blues)
Columbia CS 9188
Dion
Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album 1965
Norton 411 (2017 release of 1965 tracks produced by Wilson)
1966
Pete Seeger
God Bless the Grass
Columbia CS 9232
The Roy Meriwether Trio
Soup & Onions
Columbia CS 9233
Steve Perry
Another Rainy Day
MGM Records E 4369
Freda Payne
How Do You Say I Don’t Love You Anymore
MGM Records E 4370
The Mothers of Invention
Freak Out!
Verve V6 5005-2X, V6 5005-2
Hugh Masekela
The Americanization of Ooga Booga
MGM Records SE 4372
Connie Francis
Movie Greats of the ’60s
MGM SE 4382
The Animals
Animalization
MGM SE 4384
The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale
(artists: Sun Ra and some members of The Blues Project)
Batman and Robin
Tifton 78002
The Blues Project
Projections
Verve/Folkways FT 3008
Original Cast
A Hand is on the Gate
Verve Forecast FVS-9040-2-OC
Connie Francis
Connie Francis Live at the Sahara in Las Vegas
MGM SE 4411
Connie Francis
Connie Francis and the Kids Next Door
King Leo Records (planned MGM SE 4412)
The Animals
Animalism
MGM Records SE 4414
Jim & Jean
Changes (side B, tracks 1 & 4 only)
Verve Folkways FTS 3001
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Masekela’s Next Album
MGM Records SE 4415
Steve Sanders
A Young Boy’s Prayer
MGM Records SE 4420
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Eric Is Here
MGM SE 4433
1967
The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Verve V 5008
The Mothers of Invention
Absolutely Free
Verve SVLP 9174, V6 5013
Eric Burdon & the Animals
Winds of Change
MGM SE 4484
Nico
Chelsea Girl
Verve V 5032
The Artie Schroeck Implosion
A Spoonful of Lovin’
Verve V 5034
Benny Golson
Tune In, Turn On (To the Hippest Commercials of the Sixties)
Verve V 8710
Paul Mitchell Trio
Paul Mitchell Trio
Verve V 8713
1968
The Velvet Underground
White Light/White Heat
Verve V6 5046
Dion
Wonder Where I’m Bound
Columbia
includes five tracks from 1965 “Wanderers” session
The Mothers of Invention
We’re Only in It for the Money
Verve V6 5045X, V6 5045
(Wilson credited as executive producer)
Soft Machine
The Soft Machine, also reissued as Volume One
Probe CPLP 4500 X (co-produced with Chas Chandler)
Ill Wind
Flashes
ABC Records ABCS 641
The Bagatelle
11 P.M. Saturday
ABC Records ABCS 646
The Fraternity of Man
The Fraternity of Man
ABC Records ABCS 647
Harumi
Harumi
Verve Forecast FTS 3030-2X
Fire
Fire
ABC Records ABCS 661
The Purpose
The Purpose of the Purpose is the Blues
ABC Records ABCS 662
Central Nervous System
I Could Have Danced All Night
Music Factory Records MFS 12003
Hugh Masekela
The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela
MGM Records SE 4468
Eric Burdon & The Animals
The Twain Shall Meet
MGM SE 4537
1969
The Last Ritual
The Last Ritual
Capitol Records SKAO 206
The Fraternity of Man
Get It On!
Dot Records DLP 25955
Click
Click
ABC Records ABCS 677
Fear Itself
Fear Itself
Dot DLP 25942
The Serfs
The Early Bird Café
Capitol SKAO 207
Various Artists: Fraternity of Man; Ill Wind; Bagatelle; The Purpose; Fire
Tom’s Touch: A Collection of Tom Wilson Productions
Stateside LSSH 1501 (Netherlands)
1970
Country Joe And The Fish
C.J. Fish
Vanguard VSD 6555
Albino Gorilla
Detroit – 1984
Kama Sutra KSBS 2028
1972
Gotham
Pass the Butter
Natural Resources NR 104L
Earthquire
Earthquire
Natural Resources NR 106L
Road (with Noel Redding)
Road
Rare Earth SRE 3006
Two Friends
Two Friends
Natural Resources NR 101L
1974
John Mayall
The Latest Edition
Polydor PD 6030
co-produced with Eric the Norwegian
1975
Vernon Burch
I’ll Be Your Sunshine
United Artists Records UA LA342-G
1976
Tony Bird
Tony Bird
CBS 81183
co-produced with Larry Fallon for Namjac
1977
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
Bridges
Arista AB 4147
co-produced with Larry Fallon, Scott-Heron, and Jackson
1978
Professor Longhair
Live on the Queen Mary
Harvest SW-11790
recorded in 1975
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This discography was compiled from dozens of sources thru diligent research. It is not complete, but it’s the most comprehensive Wilson discography anywhere. © 2013-2019 Irwin Chusid
A discography of Wilson-produced non-LP singles is in progress.