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Wilton Felder

real name Wilton Lewis Felder

Houston, United States · 1940-08-31 – 2015-09-27

Wilton Felder is credited on 3,600 releases across 569 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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3,600

Credits

569

Albums

7

Decades active

1,211

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Jazz saxophonist - bassist - songwriter - producer.
Born: August 31, 1940, Houston, Texas, USA.
Died: September 27, 2015, Houston, Texas, USA.
One of the most acclaimed jazz & soul musicians of the 1970s-1980s. He is best known as a founding member of The Jazz Crusaders, founded in the late 1950s while still in high school in Houston, and later shortened to The Crusaders. Felder was extremely busy as a west coast studio musician, playing saxophone and electric bass, on various soul, R&B, and rock albums with artists such as Marvin Gaye, John Cale, Bobby Womack, Randy Newman, Jackson 5 & Joni Mitchell. He also had a modest solo output. Felder played a King Super 20 tenor sax with a metal 105/0 Berg Larsen mouthpiece. He also used Yamaha saxes. He played a Fender Precision bass, and also played Aria bass guitars.

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3,600 releases · 569 albums · active 1961–2026

  • Performance · 4,277
  • Production · 780
  • Other credits · 92
  • Engineering · 6

Studios: Wally Heider Recording Studio, Los Angeles · ABC Recording Studios · Devonshire Studios · Hollywood Sound Recorders

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