Wow!!! Well it’s “my birthday” so i can play what i want to… and i’ve been waiting to do this session since day one of Explorations. For me Lonnie Liston Smith is “da Man” ;-) and the Cosmic Echoes too…
I will never forget the first time i heard ‘Expansions’ on the dancefloor and how it took me to another space, a warm and spiritual place – this supremely-soulful-cosmic-jazz-funk dancefloor killer that hooks you in from the get go!!! I found my first copy of this tune on 7″ vinyl, and the rest followed… the “Expansions” album is superb too, as with most of his 70′s albums. But for me, “Visions Of A New World” is my favourite album (which i found for 8 Shekels while record shopping in Sheinkin), which came out after “Expansions” in the same year 1975. But hey, listen to this jazzcast then seek them all out…

“I hope that every man, woman and child will soon realize that the planet Earth is one big country. We need to stop all wars, stop all pollution of the land and water and the destruction of the beautiful rain forests. We need to grow all of our food on Earth organically. Imagine the world as one, living in peace and harmony.”
Lonnie Liston Smith (The Cosmic Prince) 1998, Transformation album.

All tracks in playlist by Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes

In Search Of Truth [Astral Traveling, 1973 Flying Dutchman]
Aspirations [Astral Traveling, 1973 Flying Dutchman]
Beautiful Woman [Cosmic Funk, 1974 Flying Dutchman]
Sais (Eygpt) [Cosmic Funk, 1974 Flying Dutchman]
Shadows [Expansions, 1975 Flying Dutchman]
Devika (Goddess) [Visions Of A New World, 1975 Flying Dutchman]
Sunset [Visions Of A New World, 1975 Flying Dutchman]
Meditations [Reflections Of A Golden Dream, 1976 Flying Dutchman]
Space Lady [Renaissance, 1976 RCA]
Space Princess [Exotic Mysteries, 1978 CBS]
Quiet Moments [Exotic Mysteries, 1978 CBS]
Floating Through Space [Loveland, 1978 CBS]
Expansions [Expansions, 1975 Flying Dutchman]

Info: Space Lady appears on a BMG compilation, RARE 4 from 1989, mistakenly entitled ‘Renaissance’!
PS. I love his hats too ;-)

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