other titles...

Lonnie Liston Smith

COSMIC FUNK (2024 Repress)

LIMITED COKE BOTTLE CLEAR LP (import) - £34.99 | Pre Order

Nestled somewhere between the soul jazz, spiritual jazz, fusion, and post-bop subgenres, 1974’s 'Cosmic Funk' headed, as the title indicates, in a...

Lonnie Liston Smith

ASTRAL TRAVELING (2024 Repress)

LIMITED CLEAR YELLOW SUNRAY LP (import) - £34.99 | Pre Order

For his 1973 debut album as a bandleader, Lonnie Liston Smith assembled a killer band of Cecil McBee on bass, George Barron on sax, James Mtume and Sonny Morgan...

Lonnie Liston Smith

Cosmic Funk & Spiritual Sounds: The Best Of The Flying Dutchman Year (repress)

cd - £13.99 | Buy

“I came to London in the 70s and was so pleasantly surprised to see the kids dancing to ‘Expansions’,” recalled Lonnie Liston Smith to me back in 2004.

SORCERESS
PRELUDE
EXPANSIONS
MY LOVE
VISIONS OF A NEW WORLD (PHASE ONE)
VISIONS OF A NEW WORLD (PHASE TWO)
WATERCOLORS
SUNSET

Lonnie Liston Smith

LIVE! (2024 Repress)

BGP / FLYING DUTCHMAN

180g lp

Released: 23rd Feb 2024

£24.99

Buy

“Live” was recorded at Smuckers Cabaret Club in Brooklyn in May 1977 and as well as a fast prowl through ‘Expansions’ includes extensive meditations on “Visions Of A New World (Phase One) and ‘Visions Of A New World (Phase Two) from the 1975 LP of the same name.

The atmospheric ‘Prelude’ sounds a precursor to Vangelis’s soundtrack for the seminal science fiction film Blade Runner from 1982. Throw in new songs like ‘Sorceress’ and ‘Watercolours’ an enthusiastic appreciative audience and you have a live classic