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Lonnie Liston Smith

Funk
Funk

Lonnie Liston Smith is a Funk act. Their sound grew out of Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis, The Harmonizing Four, The Swan Silvertones and The Soul Stirrers. Those roots explain a lot about how Lonnie Liston Smith arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, Idris Muhammad, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, The Crusaders and Johnny Hammond, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into LTJ Bukem, Reggie Lucas, Guru, Donald Byrd and Beautiful Awakening, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around Lonnie Liston Smith, reaching back through Pharoah Sanders and forward to LTJ Bukem. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Lonnie Liston SmithPharoah SandersMiles DavisThe Harmonizing FourThe Swan SilvertonesThe Soul StirrersSam CookeCharlie ParkerJohn ColtraneLTJ BukemReggie LucasGuruDonald ByrdBeautiful AwakeningRodney FranklinPhyllis HymanLonnie Liston Smith …Idris MuhammadRoy Ayers UbiquityThe CrusadersJohnny HammondRonnie FosterDexter WanselWeldon Irvine

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Lonnie Liston Smith connections

Lonnie Liston Smith grew out of Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis, The Harmonizing Four and The Swan Silvertones, shares an orbit with Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, Idris Muhammad, Roy Ayers Ubiquity and The Crusaders, went on to shape LTJ Bukem, Reggie Lucas, Guru and Donald Byrd. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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