Jazz pianist, born in Atlanta, Georgia, 1897, died of complications from pneumonia 23 October 1949 in Los Angeles, California, aged 52.
Family moved to California when Wilson was six. Worked with Ollie Dink Johnson in Los Angeles in 1921, for many years in Paul Howard's orchestra, then with Lionel Hampton's first big band in 1935. Solo work and with bands in Los Angeles in the late 1930s. With Kid Ory 1944-1948.