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Album: Cosmic Funk
# Song Title   Time
1)    Cosmic Funk More Info...
2)    Footprints More Info...
3)    Beautiful Woman More Info...
4)    Sais (Egypt) More Info...
5)    Peaceful Ones More Info...
6)    Naima More Info...
2)    Footprints More Info... 0:06
3)    Beautiful Woman More Info... 0:07
4)    Sais (Egypt) More Info... 0:08
5)    Peaceful Ones More Info... 0:05
6)    Naima More Info... 0:04
 
Album: Cosmic Funk
# Song Title   Time
1)    Cosmic Funk More Info...
2)    Footprints More Info...
3)    Beautiful Woman More Info...
4)    Sais (Egypt) More Info...
5)    Peaceful Ones More Info...
6)    Naima More Info...
2)    Footprints More Info... 0:06
3)    Beautiful Woman More Info... 0:07
4)    Sais (Egypt) More Info... 0:08
5)    Peaceful Ones More Info... 0:05
6)    Naima More Info... 0:04
 
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  • Full performer name: Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes.
  • Personnel: Lonnie Liston Smith (piano, electric piano, percussion); Donald Smith (vocals, piano, flute); George Barron (soprano saxophone, flute, percussion); Al Anderson (electric bass); Art Gore (drums); Lawrence Killian (congas, percussion); Doug Hammond, Andrew Cyrille, Ron Bridgewater (percussion).
  • All songs written by Lonnie Liston Smith except "Footprints" (Wayne Shorter), "Sais (Egypt)" (Mtume) and "Naima" (John Coletrane).
  • Personnel: Lonnie Liston Smith (piano, electric piano, percussion); Donald Smith (vocals, flute, piano); George Barron (flute, soprano saxophone, percussion); Al Anderson (electric bass); Art Gore (drums); Lawrence Killian (congas, percussion); Doug Hammond, Ron Bridgewater, Andrew Cyrille (percussion).
  • Liner Note Author: Dean Rudland.
  • Photographer: Ray Ross .
  • As Dean Rudland points out in Ace's 2014 reissue of Lonnie Liston Smith's 1974 set Cosmic Funk, Smith himself views this LP as a transitional effort, capturing him between his pioneering work with Miles Davis' electric group and the exploratory Expansions. This suggests it perhaps isn't a cohesive album and, true enough, it's a record where the good ideas are sometimes suggested rather than developed. Much of the record showcases the smooth vocal stylings of Smith's brother Donald, who leads on a vocal version of John Coltrane's "Naima," lends a bit of a supper club vibe to "Beautiful Woman," croons through "Peaceful Ones," and dives into the thick, overlapping grooves of the title track. That opening song is one of the few tracks that emphasizes funk, otherwise the cosmic reigns, as the group usually getting spacy all the while never quite leaving the earth. Although the group is quite lively on a relatively straight-ahead reading of Wayne Shorter's "Footprints," the album is distinguished by the spaces that lie between funk and bop, the periods where Smith and company start to float, then pull themselves back. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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