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Lonnie Liston Smith, Jr. (born December 28, 1940 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician best-known for his composition "Expansions".

Smith started out playing acoustic jazz before exploring jazz fusion, soul, and funk.

Smith played acoustic piano with Pharoah Sanders, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Betty Carter, and Gato Barbieri. He later joined Miles Davis as an electric keyboardist in the early 1970s.

In 1973 Smith founded the Cosmic Echoes band with his brother Donald Smith, a singer and piano player who has collaborated, among others, with Oliver Lake.

His track, "Expansions", has been featured in two videogames: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Driver: Parallel Lines.

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Partial Discography

  • Cosmic Funk , Flying Dutchman (1974)
  • Expansions , Flying Dutchman (1975)
  • "Expansions" 12" , Bluebird (1975)
  • Visions of a New World , Flying Dutchman (1975)
  • Renaissance , RCA (1976)
  • Live! ,RCA Victor (1977)
  • Exotic Mysteries, Columbia Records (1978)
  • "Space Princess" 12", Columbia Records (1978)
  • Loveland, Columbia Records (1978)
  • The Best Of , RCA (1978)
  • Song For The Children, Columbia Records (1979)
  • Dreams of Tomorrow , Doctor Jazz (1979)
  • Love Is The Answer , Columbia (1980)
  • "Give Peace A Chance (Make Love Not War)" 12" , CBS (1980)
  • Dreams Of Tomorrow , Doctor Jazz Records (1983)
  • "Never Too Late" 12" , PRT Records (1983)
  • "Never Too Late/Divine Light" 7" , PRT Records (1983)
  • New World Visions - The Very Best Of Lonnie Liston Smith , BMG (1993)
  • "Expansions/'Til You Take My Love" 12" , Simply Vinyl (2001)
  • Explorations (2xCD) , Columbia Records (2002)
  • Introducing , BMG (2002)
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Artists who have sampled Lonnie Liston Smith songs

  • Expansions , Flying Dutchman (1975)
"Expansions"
Stetsasonic - "Talkin' All That Jazz"
  • Visions of a New World , Flying Dutchman (1975)
"Devika (Goddess)"
Digable Planets - "Pacifics"
  • Dreams of Tomorrow , Doctor Jazz (1979)
"Dreams of Tomorrow"
Jay-Z - "Dead Presidents II"
Total - "Rain"
"A Garden of Peace"
Jay-Z - "Dead Presidents II"
Mary J. Blige - "Take Me as I Am"
Stacie Orrico - "Is It Me"
  • Exotic Mysteries, (1979)
"Mystical Dreamer (A Tribute To Miles Davis)"
Three 6 Mafia - "Smoke If U Got It"
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