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Lonnie Liston Smith Astral Traveling LP

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Lonnie Liston-Smith and The Cosmic Echoes: Astral Traveling (Limited Clear Yellow “Sunray” Vinyl Edition) Regular Variant

Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes: Astral Traveling (Limited Astral Swirl Vinyl Edition) (Hand Numbered) Webstore Exclusive Limited to 100ish (actual number may vary slightly)  copies 1 PER PERSON/HOUSEHOLD.

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Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes’ groundbreaking albums for the Flying Dutchman label don’t get the attention from jazz fans that they should. In fact, among the many distinguished alumni of Miles Davis’ fusion bands, keyboardist Smith and his cohorts arguably ran with Davis’ stylistic breakthrough the farthest. In five albums stretching over four years, Smith and the Cosmic Echoes stretched the fusion aesthetic to embrace post-bop modal and spiritual jazz, funk, rock, pop, and even the smooth jazz, quiet storm, and crossover genres. And if those latter styles raise your traditionalist hackles, Smith imbued all of his records with integrity, vision, and his unique spacy sensibiity; instead of playing it safe or commercial, he fearlessly paved a path for modern jazz musicians to follow (Kamasi Washington, for one, no doubt listened to these records at length). For his 1973 debut album as a bandleader, Lonnie Liston Smith assembled a killer band of Cecil McBee on bass, George Barron on sax, James Mtume and Sonny Morgan on percussion, David Lee, Jr. on drums, Badal Roy on table, Geeta Vashi on tamboura, and Joe Beck on guitar. Such a multifaceted ensemble was perfectly suited to explore the spiritual jazz that Smith had encountered while playing with Pharoah Sanders (“Let Us Go into the House of the Lord” appears here and on Sanders’ 1970 album Summun Bukmun Umyun which featured Smith), all presided over by Flying Dutchman label owner and former John Coltrane producer Bob Thiele. We’ve re-created the original gatefold artwork with Nat Hentoff’s liner notes…one of the great jazz albums of its era! Clear yellow "sunray" vinyl pressing limited to 600 copies.

Side One

1. Astral Traveling
2. Let Us Go into the House of the Lord
3. Rejuvenation

Side Two

1. I Mani (Faith)
2. In Search of Truth
3. Aspirations

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