Jerome S Moss

Jerry Moss, who co-founded A&M Records with Herb Alpert and released top-selling albums by The Carpenters, The Police, Alpert and others, has died. He was 88. His wife, Tina Moss, said. “He lived life to the fullest.” Born Jerome Sheldon Moss, he grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Brooklyn College. He moved to the West Coast and launched A&M Records, which became one of the most successful independent record labels. Moss and Alpert were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Moss, Tina and the Moss Foundation made a gift of $25 million to The Music Center in Los Angeles. He also established scholarship programs at UCLA in art and music and created an endowment to its medical school. Moss is survived by his wife, his four children — Ron, Jennifer, Harrison and Daniela — five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.