Wilton Felder

tenor saxophone, bass, saxophone, electric bass guitar, marimba, double bass, alto saxophone, bass guitar, producer, vocal, chimes

Sample recordings

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
The Jazz Crusaders
The Crusaders (US jazz group)
Grant Green (Jazz guitarist)
Karl Liebl (German tenor)
Paulinho da Costa percussion I Know Who I Am, Let's Dance Together, Love Is a Rush, My Name Is Love, Ride On, The Cycles of Time, We All Have a Star, Why Believe, You and Me and Ecstasy

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Paulinho da Costa percussion I Know Who I Am, Let's Dance Together, Love Is a Rush, My Name Is Love, Ride On, The Cycles of Time, We All Have a Star, Why Believe, You and Me and Ecstasy
Joe Sample keyboard Let's Dance Together, My Name Is Love, Ride On, The Cycles of Time, We All Have a Star, Why Believe, You and Me and Ecstasy
Roland Bautista guitar I Know Who I Am, Let's Dance Together, My Name Is Love, Ride On, The Cycles of Time, We All Have a Star, Why Believe, You and Me and Ecstasy
Lenny Castro percussion 4 O'Clock, Don't Let Your Defenses Down, I'll Never Be the Same, Love Is a Rush, Sea Breeze, Some Things Never Change, Tender Too Soon, The Chances We Take
James Gadson drums I Know Who I Am, Let's Dance Together, My Name Is Love, Ride On, The Cycles of Time, We All Have a Star, Why Believe, You and Me and Ecstasy
Abraham LaBoriel bass 4 O'Clock, Don't Let Your Defenses Down, I'll Never Be the Same, Love Is a Rush, Some Things Never Change, Tender Too Soon, The Chances We Take
Greg Phillinganes keyboard, piano I Know Who I Am, Let's Dance Together, My Name Is Love, Ride On, We All Have a Star, Why Believe, You and Me and Ecstasy
Sonny Emory programming, drums 4 O'Clock, I'll Never Be the Same, Sea Breeze, Some Things Never Change, Tender Too Soon, The Chances We Take
Tim May guitar I Know Who I Am, My Name Is Love, Ride On, The Cycles of Time, We All Have a Star, Why Believe
Khabir Ghani vocal My Name Is Love, The Cycles of Time, We All Have a Star, You and Me and Ecstasy
Paul Jackson, Jr. guitar Let's Dance Together, My Name Is Love, You and Me and Ecstasy
John Pena (drums) drums Don't Let Your Defenses Down, Love Is a Rush
Reichii Guillory vocal, vocal arranger Don't Let Your Defenses Down, Love Is a Rush
Angela Bryant vocal Let's Dance Together
Marshall Rice vocal Let's Dance Together
Patrick Buchanon guitar The Chances We Take
Bobby Lyle piano, synthesizer Some Things Never Change
Bobby Womack vocal Forever
Bradley Bobo bass Sea Breeze
David Ervin programming, synthesizer Sea Breeze
Debbie Demola Ross vocal The Cycles of Time
Willie Foster III vocal Let's Dance Together

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
The Jazz Crusaders alto saxophone, saxophone, tenor saxophone 507 Neyland, A Trane Thing, Air Waves, All the Lonely Years, Anita’s New Dance, Another Blues, Bachafillen, Big Hunk of Funk, Black Bird, Blue Monday, Boopie, Brahms’ Lullaby, Brother Bernard, Cathy’s Delight, Close Shave, Congolese Sermon, Cookie Man, Coon, Coon (alternate take), Coon (alternate version), Deacon Brown, Fancy Dance, Fire Water, Free Sample, Freedom Sound, Give Peace a Chance, Green Back Dollar, Heat Wave, Hey Jude, I Think It Was a Dream, Ice Water, In a Dream, Isa’s Chant, I’ll Remember Tomorrow, Lazy Canary, Lonely Horn, Long John, Love Is Blue, Love and Peace, M.J.S. Funk, M.J.S. Funk (alternate take), M.J.S. Funk (alternate version), Moon River, Mr. Sandman, New Time Shuffle, New Time Shuffle (alternate version), Night Theme, No Name Samba, One Leg Dance, Out Back, Para Mi Espoza, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, Promises, Promises, Purple Onion, Robbins’ Nest, Sassy, Scandalizing, Scratch, Sinnin’ Sam, Some Samba, Song of India, Soul Kosher, Space Settlement, Sting Ray, Stix March, Sunset in the Mountains, Sweetwater, That's It, That’s It, The Geek, The Shadow Do, The Thing, The Thing (alternate version), The Thrill Is Gone, The Young Rabbits, Theme From Exodus, Theme From “Exodus”, Theme From “The L-Shaped Room” (a.k.a. T-Shaped Twist), Till All Ends, Tonight, Tortoise and the Hare, Tough Talk, Tribute to Charles, Turkish Black, Uh Huh, Upstairs, Uptight (Everything’s Alright), Watts Happening, Weather Beat, While the City Sleeps, White Cobra, You Are Sometimes Only Rain
The Crusaders producer, alto saxophone, bass, electric bass guitar, marimba, saxophone, tenor saxophone A Ballad for Joe (Louis), A Message From the Inner City, A Search for Soul, Ain't Gon' Change a Thang, Burnin’ Up the Carnival, Carnival of the Night, Do You Remember When?, Don't Let It Get You Down, Double Bubble, Elegant Evening, Feel It, Free as the Wind, Get on the Soul Ship (It's Sailing), Gotta Get It On, Greasy Spoon, Honky Tonk Struttin', I Felt the Love, It Happens Everyday, Journey From Within, Last Call, Lilies of the Nile, Look Beyond the Hill, My Lady, Night Faces, Nite Crawler, No Place to Hide, Rhapsody and Blues, River Rat, Rodeo Drive (High Steppin'), Soul Shadows, Southern Comfort, Stomp and Buck Dance, Street Life, Super Stuff, Sweet Gentle Love, Sweet n' Sour, Take It or Leave It, The Hustler, The Way We Was, The Well's Gone Dry, Time Bomb, Tomorrow Where Are You?, Tough Talk, When There's Love Around, Where There's a Will, There's a Way, Whispering Pines
Grant Green bass, electric bass guitar Betcha by Golly, Wow, California Green, Cast Your Fate to the Wind, Fancy Free, Flood in Franklin Park, Got to Be There, I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I'll Get It Myself) / Cold Sweat (medley), If You Really Love Me, In the Middle, Jan Jan, Never My Love, Sunrise, Sunset, Walk in the Night, Windjammer
Karl Liebl bass A Sound for Sore Ears, Braddock Breakdown, Enchanted Lady, Memphis Junction, Oh Happy Day, One Mint Julep (One Way), One Mint Julep (The Other Way), Picking Up the Vibrations, Queen Mother Stomp, Uh-Huh
Joe Sample bass Love's Paradise, Wonderland
Michael Franks bass Antonio's Song (The Rainbow), B'Wana - He No Home, Chain Reaction, Don't Be Blue, Down in Brazil, I Really Hope It's You, In the Eye of the Storm, The Lady Wants to Know
Dizzy Gillespie bass Fire Dance, Free Ride, Incantation, Love Poem for Donna, Ozone Madness, The Last Stroke of Midnight, Unicorn, Wrong Number
Jimmy Smith double bass After Hours, For Everyone Under the Sun, Let's Stay Together, Root Down (and Get It), Sagg Shootin' His Arrow, Sagg Shootin’ His Arrow, Slow Down Sagg
Secret Society bass Beer Can Alley, Boo, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Come Together, Evil Ways, Hurt So Bad, Wedding Bell Blues
David T. Walker bass Feeling Feeling, I Get High on You, I Wish You Love, Lovin' You, On Love, Our Lives
Charles Kynard tenor saxophone Be My Love, Boogalooin', Reelin' With The Feelin', Slow Burn, Soul Reggae, Stomp
Jean-Luc Ponty bass America Drinks and Goes Home, How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That, Idiot Bastard Son, Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra, Twenty Small Cigars
Donald Byrd bass, electric bass guitar Flight Time, Jamie, Mr. Thomas, The Emperor, The Little Rasti
Joan Baez bass Blue Sky, Children and All That Jazz, Diamonds & Rust, Jesse
Marvin Gaye bass guitar If I Should Die Tonight, Keep Gettin’ It On, Let’s Get It On, Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
Blue Mitchell bass Bantu Village, Bush Girl, Hnic, Na Ta Ka
Ronnie Laws bass, electric bass guitar All the Time, Night Breeze, Strugglin', Tidal Wave
Marion Doenges tenor saxophone Outside Lookin In, Rock With You, Route 66
Joni Mitchell bass, chimes Court and Spark, Don't Interrupt the Sorrow, Edith and the Kingpin
H. Money bass guitar, electric bass guitar A B C, I Want You Back, The Love You Save
Dee Dee Bridgewater bass He's Gone, My Lonely Room, You Saved Me
Shuggie Otis bass Freedom Flight, Sweet Thang
Nils Landgren Funk Unit tenor saxophone Mr. Masumoto
Arthur Adams bass Do What Cha Doin'
Hugh Masekela tenor saxophone Mace and Grenades
Lani Hall bass Hello It's Me