When an organist receives unanimous accolades from the likes of Hammond legends such as Dr. Lonnie Smith, the best Blues and Jazz guitarists from Spain and the toughest of critics, it only remains for us to enjoy the music of this young artist Mauri Sanchis.

 

“Mauri Sanchis has a gift, something that can never be taught or learned, his music comes from his soul” 

Dr. Lonnie Smith (Hammond B3 Legend)

 

“M. Sanchis is one of those few musicians with the quality of being brilliant through simplicity. His music is plagued with good taste and soul and is the only Spanish organist able to handle the Hammond Organ to its possibilities"

 

"Mauri is a high class organist, with fresh ideas and promising future"

Javier Vargas (renowned Spanish Blues guitarist who played with Santana)

 

"To say Mauri Sanchis is as to say soul and feeling"

Graham Foster (Sensational British Guitar Player, and ex Etta James guitarist)

 

"Mauri Sanchis is a superb Organist, with a very rich and modern sound and a noticeable treatment of the Leslie"

Manuel Perera

 (Author of That Hammond Sound, the history of the Hammond Organ)

 

 

Mauri Sanchis is a self-taught artist, with very fine sensitivity who expresses himself with a special magic that joins melodies and personal experiences, inspiration and technique.

His rhythm is warm and vivid without the rigidity of music studies, but with an instinct, touched by his intimate passion. His musical sounds get to the heart of the listener marrying humanity and art.

 

The local press remarked from the very beginning, that Progressions is "a series of virtuosos considers the formidable Blues Band founded by him in 1992 almost impossible in the local scenario".  These are his roots, passion and stimulus to move forward.

 

In America, with its world and its musicians, becomes a unique experience in Mauri's progression. In California he continues his schooling and his achievements, joining the ranks of such musicians as MJC Jazz Band (Directed by Trumpeter, Dan Maas), Jay Wood & the Blues Commandoes or even the exigent Gary Hamilton, who said, "you ain't got to be black to play the Blues, Mauri is the proof".

 

His character, his magic, his passion for the Hammond and the Blues took him to tour Spain for a year connecting his youth with the mastery of Graham Foster, who would add "Mauri Sanchis is a promising organist that, in these times where techno music is dominating, bets for a music full of soul and feeling with his Hammond B3 and his unlimited improving aims".  Blues genius, Javier Vargas adds to that "Mauri is a high class organist, with fresh ideas and a promising future."

 

The warmth of Mauri’s music reverberates deep within Ximo Tébar, who expresses better than anyone the virtues of Mauri, "M. Sanchis is one of those few musicians with the quality of being brilliant through simplicity. His music is plagued with good taste and soul and is the only Spanish organist able to handle the Hammond Organ to its possibilities".  Thanks to Tébar, Sanchis will meet his mentor, one of the greatest of the Hammond Organ: Dr. Lonnie Smith who will stimulate and push Mauri on that roundtrip that is Jazz, "Mauri Sanchis has a gift, something that can never be taught or learned, his music comes from his soul. His destiny is joined to music, not for himself, but for the joy of the rest of the people".

 

At the young age of 39, Mauri Sanchis is achieving his obsessive passion, his childhood dream, the warmth and mix of the souls his colleagues on stage offer the public the wind of life, short but intense that will not leave anyone indifferent, not even one of the most authoritative voices in Hammond Organ such as Manuel Perera (Author of That Hammond Sound, the history of the Hammond Organ) "Mauri Sanchis is a superb organist, with a very rich and modern sound and a noticeable treatment of

the Leslie."

 

Mauri Sanchis goes full strength ahead with his generosity and the blood of his work to the public's hopes, to the travels of the ear and the heart.  Mauri puts his life into his hands and gives it back to us with the rhythm of his musical inspiration.

F. BERNACER