LONNIE LISTON SMITH "Cosmic Funk" 12" Vinyl Stereo LP 1974 Gatefold PROMO VG+

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                                  Lonnie Liston Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith, Jr. is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with such notable jazz artists as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of albums widely regarded as classics in the fusion, quiet storm, smooth jazz and acid jazz genres.

                                      Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
                                                              Cosmic Funk
            1974 Flying Dutchman Records     BDL1 - 0591      Gatefold     Promo


AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
As Dean Rudland points out in Ace's 2014 reissue of Lonnie Liston Smith's 1974 set Cosmic Funk, Smith himself views this LP as a transitional effort, capturing him between his pioneering work with Miles Davis' electric group and the exploratory Expansions. This suggests it perhaps isn't a cohesive album and, true enough, it's a record where the good ideas are sometimes suggested rather than developed. Much of the record showcases the smooth vocal stylings of Smith's brother Donald, who leads on a vocal version of John Coltrane's "Naima," lends a bit of a supper club vibe to "Beautiful Woman," croons through "Peaceful Ones," and dives into the thick, overlapping grooves of the title track. That opening song is one of the few tracks that emphasizes funk, otherwise the cosmic reigns, as the group usually getting spacy all the while never quite leaving the earth. Although the group is quite lively on a relatively straight-ahead reading of Wayne Shorter's "Footprints," the album is distinguished by the spaces that lie between funk and bop, the periods where Smith and company start to float, then pull themselves back.

Tracks    A1 Cosmic Funk Written-By – Lonnie Liston Smith 5:35 A2 Footprints Written-By – Wayne Shorter 6:08 A3 Beautiful Woman Written-By – Lonnie Liston Smith 6:57 B1 Sais (Egypt) Written-By – Mtume* 8:15 B2 Peaceful Ones Written-By – Lonnie Liston Smith 5:03 B3 Naima Written-By – John Coltrane 4:02

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VG +  = Very Good  . Vinyl has a few surface scuffs and/or very minor scratches (but no ‘feeler’ scratches). Label shows some evidence of wear, no writing. Jacket has no seam splits and 1-2 small hairline creases and/or minor chipping at edges or bumped corners, some ring wear, no writing, some liquid stains. 

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