
Artist
Lonnie Liston Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith is a jazz artist from Richmond, Virginia, USA formed in 1940. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Richmond, Virginia, USA · Best jazz albums
- 30
- Releases
- 1971–2026
- Active years
- 1940
- Formed

Artist
Lonnie Liston Smith is a jazz artist from Richmond, Virginia, USA formed in 1940. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Richmond, Virginia, USA · Best jazz albums

Most popular
Dreams of Tomorrow
1983

Exotic Mysteries & Loveland
1998

Silhouettes
1984

Love Is The Answer
1980

Loveland
1978

Astral Traveling
2002

Cosmic Funk & Spiritual Sounds: The Flying Dutchman Masters
2012

Exotic Mysteries
1978

Daddy, What Is Jazz?
2025

Lonnie Liston Smith JID017
2023

Air Mediterraneen (Live Nice '71)
2023

Visions of a New World
2015

Cosmic Funk
2014

Expansions
2013
A Song for the Children / Exotic Mysteries
2008

Explorations: The Columbia Years
2002

Explorations: The Columbia Recordings
2002
Magic Lady
1991
Watercolors
1991
Love Goddess
1990
Make Someone Happy
1986
Rejuvenation
1985
A Song for the Children
1979

Live!
1977

Renaissance
1976

Reflections of a Golden Dream
1976
Mama Wailer
1971
Lonnie Liston Smith Jr. (born December 28, 1940) is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with such 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, smooth jazz and acid jazz genres. Smith was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, United States to a musical family; his father was a member of Richmond Gospel music group The Harmonizing Four, and he remembered groups such as the Swan Silvertones and the Soul Stirrers (featuring a young Sam Cooke) as regular visitors to the house when he was a child. He studied piano, tuba and trumpet in high school and college before receiving a B.S. in music education from Morgan State University in Baltimore in 1961. Smith has cited Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Miles Davis as major influences in his youth. While still a teenager, Smith became well known locally as a backing vocalist as well as pianist in the Baltimore metropolitan area. During this period, he regularly performed with a number of his contemporaries, including Gary Bartz (alto), Grachan Moncur (trombone), and Mickey Bass (bass). He als…