Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia. Photo by Annie Leibovitz, for Live at Keystone album
Background information
Birth name
Merl Washington[1]
Born
(1934-02-14)February 14, 1934 San Mateo, California, U.S.
Died
October 24, 2008(2008-10-24) (aged 74) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Instrument(s)
Hammond organ, piano
Years active
1960s–2006
Musical artist
Merl Saunders (February 14, 1934 – October 24, 2008)[1] was an American multi-genre musician who played piano and keyboards, favoring the Hammond B-3 console organ.
^ ab"Obituary: Merl Saunders". The Guardian. 27 October 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
MerlSaunders (February 14, 1934 – October 24, 2008) was an American multi-genre musician who played piano and keyboards, favoring the Hammond B-3 console...
experience." MerlSaunders, a keyboard player, was Garcia's main musical collaborator outside the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1975. Saunders and Garcia bands...
participated in a variety of side projects, including the Saunders–Garcia Band (with longtime friend MerlSaunders), the Jerry Garcia Band, Old & In the Way, the...
rhythm guitar in the Saunders-Garcia band, mostly in Bay Area clubs. On his follow-up album, Excalibur, Jerry Garcia and MerlSaunders played on the sessions...
of Rage" – 8:19 "Going, Going, Gone" – 18:56 Disc one Jerry Garcia & MerlSaunders. Recorded Live at The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA (1/25/73) Jerry...
Retrospective Dreams – RJ Fox (1991) Fire Up Plus – MerlSaunders (1992) Fiesta Amazonica – MerlSaunders and the Rainforest Band (1998) Live at the Fillmore...
Live at Keystone is an album by MerlSaunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, and Bill Vitt. It was recorded live at the Keystone in Berkeley, California on...
album by MerlSaunders. His second album, it was recorded in the fall of 1971, and released in February 1972. In the early 1970s, MerlSaunders and Jerry...
High Noon, MerlSaunders & the Rainforest Band, to name a few. He appeared on several albums with the Rainforest Band and other MerlSaunders projects,...
Fire Up Plus is an album by MerlSaunders and Friends. It contains most of the songs from two LPs from the early 1970s — Heavy Turbulence, and Fire Up...
Blues From the Rainforest, a collaboration between jazz keyboardist MerlSaunders, percussionist Muruga Booker, and Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia...
Keystone Encores is an album by MerlSaunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, and Bill Vitt. It was recorded live at the Keystone in Berkeley, California, on...
performed at the Haight Street Fair with Weir, John Cipollina, and MerlSaunders, among others. In 1986, Mydland formed Go Ahead with several San Francisco...
year, Garcia, Kahn and keyboardist MerlSaunders (who performed with Garcia and Kahn from 1971 to 1975 in the Saunders/Garcia Band and Legion of Mary) briefly...
Fire Up – MerlSaunders – 1973 Live at Keystone – MerlSaunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, Bill Vitt – 1973 Keystone Encores – MerlSaunders, Jerry Garcia...
Plays Dylan The Very Best of Jerry Garcia Well-Matched: The Best of MerlSaunders & Jerry Garcia Bands Grateful Dead New Riders of the Purple Sage Old...
Francisco, California on March 23, 1975. The set, which also featured MerlSaunders (organ) and Ned Lagin (electric piano), was subsequently released on...
Garcia Live Volume Six is a three-CD live album by Jerry Garcia and MerlSaunders. It was recorded on July 5, 1973, at the Lion's Share in San Anselmo...
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