Vance Wilson

Vance E. Wilson (February 28, 1925 – August 10, 2010) was an American jazz alto and tenor sax player based in Philadelphia most known for playing lead tenor and alto sax on Clifford Brown's first recording in 1952, The Beginning and the End (Columbia, 1973), as a member of Chris Powell's Five Blue Flames, together with Osie Johnson at a double recording session in Chicago.

After settling in Philadelphia in around 1946, Wilson studied classical music at the Ornstein School of Music together with John Coltrane as well as leading his own bands there.

A friend of Count Basie's, he didn't join his orchestra because he was tired of touring, one of the reasons he retired from the music business in the 1960s.