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Lonnie Liston Smith

COSMIC FUNK (2024 Repress)

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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

LIVE! (2024 Repress)

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“Live” was recorded at Smuckers Cabaret Club in Brooklyn in May 1977 and as well as a fast prowl through ‘Expansions’ includes extensive...

Lonnie Liston Smith

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

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“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.

Astral Traveling
Let Us Go into the House of the Lord
Rejuvenation
I Mani (Faith)
In Search of Truth
Aspirations

Lonnie Liston Smith

ASTRAL TRAVELING (2024 Repress)

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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 on percussion, David Lee, Jr.

on drums, Badal Roy on table, Geeta Vashi on tamboura, and Joe Beck on guitar. Such a multifaceted ensemble was perfectly suited to explore the spiritual jazz that Smith had encountered while playing with Pharoah Sanders (“Let Us Go into the House of the Lord” appears here and on Sanders’ 1970 album Summun Bukmun Umyun which featured Smith), all presided over by Flying Dutchman label owner and former John Coltrane producer Bob Thiele.