''Expansions'' is an album by keyboardist

Lonnie Liston Smith Lonnie Liston Smith Jr. (born December 28, 1940) is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with such jazz artists as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of ...

, featuring performances recorded in 1974 and released by the

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Reception

In his review for

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, 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".

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 # "

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) − 4:15 # "Shadows" − 6:20 # "My Love" − 5:43

Personnel

− 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) *

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− bass *Art Gore − drums *

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− 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

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