Expansions (Lonnie Liston Smith album)
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| 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 | |||
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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]
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| 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]
