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Houston, Texas, USA
Wilton Lewis Felder was an American saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of the Jazz Crusaders, later known as the Crusaders. Felder played bass on the Jackson 5's hits "I Want You Back" (1969) and "ABC" (1970) and on Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" (1973).
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- Joni Mitchell: For the Roses — Self2024
- The Crusaders - Live at Montreux 2003 — Saxophone2008
- When We Were Kings — Self1996
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1940
- Active to
- 2015
Discography
Member of
- The Crusaders1960–1971
- The Crusaders
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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
- Wilton Felder.jpg
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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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