Soul Grooving

Merl Saunders' Soul Grooving on America Records captures the organist’s gift for marrying gospel-rooted Hammond B3 work with funk and soul sensibilities. Saunders' elastic touch on the keys—heard across sessions with Santana and countless Bay Area sessions—anchors these grooves in both spiritual warmth and dance-floor pragmatism. A testament to the deep bench of West Coast soul-jazz fusion during the early 1970s.