Love Brings Happiness; Dawn; Cosmic Changes; Gratitude; Love Can Be; Fete; Kaleidoscope; What May Come; A New Spring. Lonnie Liston Smith: acoustic piano, Fender ...

From gospel-quartet singing to free jazz and doo-wop, the Smith family has influenced not only Richmond's music, but America's. It takes a lot to blow the mind of a musician who specializes in cosmic ...

JID017, an album produced in collaboration with A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammed and film score composer Adrian Younge for their long-running label Jazz Is Dead, is a smooth mix of jazz ...

He’s a cosmic keyboard pioneer. A sideman to jazz legends. A revered source of hip-hop samples. And he’s not done yet. Richmond’s own Lonnie Liston Smith is the latest featured artist on the Jazz Is ...

Having kicked off 2023 with one of the strongest albums in its catalogue—Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison's Jazz Is Dead 16—Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge's label continues on a roll. Jazz Is ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Church Hill native Lonnie Liston Smith has made a name for himself playing with the likes of jazz giants Miles Davis and Art Blakey. The pianist was one of the only jazz artists to ...

Lonnie Liston Smith is a jazz legend. He's a pianist and keyboard player. He's worked with Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis and Marvin Gaye. Smith is a master of the Fender Rhodes – the electric piano ...

On 1975’s Expansions, American jazz musician and composer Lonnie Liston Smith took the big leap. It’s an album that’s rightly feted as key to a very open, dynamic form of jazz-funk fusion, one that’s ...