Lonnie Liston Smith is an American jazz, R&B, soul and funk keyboard player from
a musical family in Virginia. He studied music as a child and at university and
performed locally. After moving to New York City in 1963, he had a stint
accompanying singer Betty Carter and made records with saxophonist Roland Kirk.
He spent time with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and with saxophonist Pharoah
Sanders' band and made records with him and artists such as saxophonist Gato
Barbieri and trumpet player Miles Davis.
He recorded his first album with Cosmic Echoes, 'Astral Traveling', in 197...