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Wolfgang Melz (b. 1938) is a German-American bassist and composer, currently based in Houston, Texas. He was born in Landsberg, Germany, and during World War II his family fled to Wiesbaden, in the American occupied zone.
Born in Germany in 1938, Wolfgang Melz came to the U.S. in the early sixties – playing, of all things, the banjo. Almost immediately, Melz was playing Dixieland with Teddy Buckner and flat-out country music with Buck Owens. He discovered electric bass almost by accident and became obsessed with it.
Watch a video interview with Wolfgang Melz, a bassist who played with Gabor Szabo, Jim Keltner and others. Learn about his musical influences, experiences and stories in jazz and rock.
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Gabor Szabo's Magical Connection features Wolfgang Melz on electric bass and Jim Keltner on drums, among other notable musicians. The album includes covers of pop hits, originals and a title track that Szabo improvises over.
Talented Fender bassist Wolfgang Melz rapidly ascended in importance to the group, providing guitar-quality pyro-technique (before Jaco Pastorious made it irrelevant) and a number of appealing compositions.
Profound feel player talks about his non-linear approach to the electric bass in all musical settings. ...more.
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For their 1972 tour, the group expanded, bringing in first session bass player Wolfgang Melz, and then Mike Berkowitz on drums, to add more musical versatility on stage and free up Brian Cole and Ted Bluechel to concentrate on singing. But on August 2, 1972, 29-year-old Cole was found dead in his Los Angeles home of a heroin overdose.
