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BREAKING NEWS

Lonnie Liston Smith Receives Special Achievement Award from Alma Mater Morgan State University!

Click the photo below to view write up in MSU's Alumni News Magazine

Photo Credit: Jay L. Baker

Shown Above: Kweisi Mfume, Dr. David Wilson (MSU President), Lonnie Liston Smith, and Rev. Dr. Charles D. Fletcher, Jr.

Photo Credit: Jay L. Baker

Shown Above: Dr. David Wilson (MSU President), Lonnie Liston Smith

Mi-Soul Studio Live

London

Photo Credit: Scott Miller

Legendary US keyboard player Lonnie Liston Smith wowed the crowd at the Brooklyn Bowl on Friday 20th November.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of his landmark album, Expansions, with a joint Mi-Soul and Musiconnex promoted concert.750 plus Jazz Funk and die hard Lonnie fans made it over to the Brooklyn Bowl at the O2 arena, to celebrate forty years of this iconic album.

Lonnie performed for a full ninety minutes, playing tunes from his extensive repertoire of music.

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Louder Than War

Bristol Live Interview by Phillip Allen

We round up our coverage of RBMA’s Bristol weekender with a rather special celebration of Lonnie Liston Smith by Gilles Peterson.

The last night of the Red Bull Music Academy UK Tour goes interstellar with Gilles Peterson Presents Lonnie Liston Smith @ Bristol Planetarium. American jazz, soul, and funk musician, Lonnie Liston Smith, Jr started out playing straight-ahead acoustic jazz before becoming better known for embracing fusion, crossover, soul and funk with his 1970’s band the Cosmic Echoes.

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Red Bull Music Academy

UK Tour Live Review (June 2015)

Bristol Live Magazine

After the standing ovation had settled to an excited murmur and the grins had settled to smiles, my girlfriend turned to me and said: “How the hell are you going to write about that?!”.

We had arrived at the venue, not really knowing what to expect. I’d never been to a planetarium and certainly never conceived of watching an incredibly intimate gig inside one. We dutifully climbed the steps into the ominous silver sphere that sits as a centrepiece in Bristol’s Millennium Square and were were shown to our reserved seats; whispering distance from a full band set up. The ceiling was peppered with images of stars, morphing and changing in irregular patterns and we began to speculate upon the what the evening would hold.

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Jazz Café Camden

Review and photos by Roger Thomas

Several decades have passed since Lonnie Liston Smith first graced the scene with music that would establish him as an ardent trail-blazer. His show at the Jazz Café Camden showed that he remains inspirational, despite the passage of time.

Like Miles Davis and Art Blakey, he constantly drafts in fresh and young talent into his line-up, the New Cosmic Echoes. Samir Moulay on guitar provided the funk à la Wah Wah Watson and the more refined Benson-esque elements. Tabitha Pearson - vocals, Vernon Prout - electric bass delivered a firm foundation and Lee Pearson on drums provided a solid driving pulse.

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Blues & Soul

Magazine

Photo Credit and Article by Simon Redley

Lonnie Liston Smith has just about done it all. He is a pioneer of jazz funk fusion, loved by the UK's acid jazz scene of the 70s, and his music sampled by the likes of Jay Z and Mary J Blige in recent years.

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Style Weekly

"Lonnie's Boys"

by Don Harrison

Lonnie's Boys From gospel-quartet singing to free jazz and

doo-wop, the Smith family has influenced not only Richmond's music, but America's. It takes a lot to blow the mind of a musician who specializes in cosmic space jazz.

"Oh man, I can't believe this," Lonnie Liston Smith Jr. says from his home in Short Pump. "I'm looking on the computer and ... I just didn't know."

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