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Take Five With Calvin Mark Smith

by AAJ Staff
August 18, 2009

Meet Calvin Mark Smith:Born and raised in the New England area, Calvin showed an early proclivity for percussion. Although he spent time on other instruments, he always returned to drums. In and out of various genres and bands throughout his life, he finally settled on music production and recording. To this end, he established ...

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Lonnie Liston Smith

by Terrell Kent Holmes
August 21, 2005

It's been suggested that if anyone bridged the gap between John Coltrane and Earth, Wind & Fire, it was keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith. Born December 28th, 1940 in Richmond, Virg., he began his jazz career playing acoustic piano as a sideman with such luminaries as Pharoah Sanders, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Betty Carter and Gato Barbieri. A ...

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Explorations

By Lonnie Liston Smith

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2002

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Explorations: The Columbia Recordings

By Lonnie Liston Smith

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2002

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Lonnie Liston Smith: Explorations: The Columbia Recordings

Read "Explorations: The Columbia Recordings" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
June 1, 2002

Reissued from four albums, Columbia's 2-CD set reveals all the energy and large-scale production effort that was placed into Lonnie Liston Smith's work from 1978-80. Two that had not before been released on CD, Love Is The Answer and A Song For The Children, as well as Exotic Mysteries and Loveland, reflect the funk attitude that ...

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