Chance The Rapper is a model citizen who in just the past few weeks has done great things like offer to grill chicken for charity and raise over $2 million for Chicago schools, but now he finds ...
If someone has not released a recording in twenty five years, it must be a special occasion. Lonnie Liston Smith went out west, met a Fender Rhodes piano and, voila, conjured up the '70s again. So, ...
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 ...
Love Brings Happiness; Dawn; Cosmic Changes; Gratitude; Love Can Be; Fete; Kaleidoscope; What May Come; A New Spring. Lonnie Liston Smith: acoustic piano, Fender ...
It happened again: Someone sampled "A Garden Of Peace." Drum breaks have been used over and over in sample-based tracks, but when a melody keeps resurfacing, it bears a deeper look. What is it about ...
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 ...
The world of jazz can be daunting, with its complex polyrhythms, dissonant chord changes, and Biblical history of legendary collaborations between and among legendary musicians, at legendary venues ...
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 one of contemporary music's most versatile keyboardists. With a career spanning four decades, Smith has worked as a soloist, bandleader and sideman to greats including Miles ...