| Expansions | ||||
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| Studio album by Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes | ||||
| Released | 1975 | |||
| Recorded | November 25 & 26, 1974 | |||
| Studio | New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz-funk[1] | |||
| Length | 39:12 | |||
| Label | RCA/Flying Dutchman BDL1-0934 | |||
| Producer | Bob Thiele, Lonnie Liston Smith | |||
| Lonnie Liston Smith chronology | ||||
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Expansions is an album by keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith, featuring performances recorded in 1974 and released by the Flying Dutchman label the following year.[2]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [3] |
In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek stated, "It is fully a jazz album, and a completely funky soul-jazz disc as well ... Smith plays both piano and electric keyboards and keeps his compositions on the jazzy side -- breezy, open, and full of groove playing that occasionally falls over to the funk side of the fence ... Summery and loose in feel, airy and free with its in-the-cut beats and stellar piano fills, Expansions prefigures a number of the "smooth jazz" greats here, without the studio slickness and turgid lack of imagination. ... The music on Expansions is timeless soul-jazz, perfect in every era. Of all the fusion records of this type released in the mid-'70s, Expansions provided smoother jazzers and electronica's sampling wizards with more material that Smith could ever have anticipated".[3]
Track listing
All compositions by Lonnie Liston Smith except where noted
- "Expansions" − 6:04
- "Desert Nights" − 6:42
- "Summer Days" − 5:50
- "Voodoo Woman" (Smith, Michael Carvin) − 4:20
- "Peace" (Horace Silver, Doug Carn) − 4:15
- "Shadows" − 6:20
- "My Love" − 5:43
Personnel
- Lonnie Liston Smith − piano, electric piano, electronic keyboard textures
- Donald Smith − flute, vocals, vocal textures
- Dave Hubbard − soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto flute (tracks 2-4, 6 & 7)
- Cecil McBee − bass
- Art Gore − drums
- Michael Carvin − percussion, clavinet, drums (tracks 1, 2 & 4, 6 & 7)
- Leopoldo Fleming − bongos, percussion (tracks 1-4, 6 & 7)
- Lawrence Killian − congas, percussion (tracks 1-4, 6 & 7)
References
- ^ Gorton, TJ (July 30, 2018). "BeatCaffeine's 100 Best Jazz-Funk Songs". BeatCaffeine. Archived from the original on August 25, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ Flying Dutchman Label Discography accessed November 22, 2019
- ^ a b Jurek, Thom. Expansions – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
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