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Lonnie Liston Smith is tagged as: jazz, funk, jazz funk, soul, fusion

When Lonnie Liston Smith made the transition from sideman to leader in 1973, it was the beginning of a fusion/crossover/post-bop band he dubbed Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes. The acoustic pianist/electric keyboardist, who was born in Richmond, VA, on December 28, 1940, should not be confused with soul-jazz/hard bop organist Lonnie Smith. This Smith would have had an impressive resumé even if he had never formed a band of his own. In the ’60s or early ’70s, he had been a sidemen for, among others, Pharoah Sanders, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Gato Barbieri, singer Betty Carter, and trumpeter Miles Davis. In fact, Smith was still in Davis’ employ when he signed with producer Bob Thiele’s RCA-distributed Flying Dutchman label and recorded his first album as a leader, Astral Traveling (which Thiele produced). Nonetheless, the Cosmic Echoes were a major step forward for Smith — the improviser had a lot more time to devote to his own compositions and he was free to concentrate on a very spiritual type of fusion that had a variety of influences. The post-bop of model explorers like Coltrane, Sanders, Kirk, Yusef Lateef, McCoy Tyner, and Charles Lloyd was a heavy influence on Smith’s composing since all of those artists shared the Cosmic Echoes&...
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Top 10 Lonnie Liston Smith Songs
Expansions
A Chance for Peace
Give Peace A Chance (Make Love)
A Garden Of Peace
Quiet Moments
Devika (Goddess)
Cosmic Funk
Shadows
Golden Dreams
Beautiful Woman
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Explorations: The Columbia Recordings
Introducing
Cosmic Funk & Spiritual Sounds: The Flying Dutchman Masters
Dreams Of Tomorrow
Expansions
Live
Cosmic Funk
Silhouettes
Renaissance
Visions Of A New World
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