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Also known as Wilton Lewis Felder

American musician (1940–2015)

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1940
Active to
2015
jazzsoul jazz

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11,050
Total plays
54,339

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Wilton Felder (born Wilton Lewis Felder, 31st August 1940, Houston, Texas) is a saxophonist and bassist, and is best known as a founding member of The Crusaders, initially called the Jazz Crusaders. Felder, Wayne Henderson, Joe Sample, and Stix Hooper founded the group while in high school in Houston. The Jazz Crusaders evolved from a straight-ahead jazz combo into a pioneering jazz-rock fusion group, with a definite soul music influence. Felder worked with the original group for over thirty yea

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Instance of
human
Given name
Lewis
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Houston
Place of death
Whittier
Occupation
saxophonist
Genre
jazz
Instrument
trombone
Image
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date of birth
1940-08-31
date of death
2015-09-24
member of
The Crusaders
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
cancer
start of work period
1959-00-00
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