Monthly Archives: December, 2025

CULT CLASSIC: LONNIE LISTON SMITH AND THE COSMIC ECHOES-RENAISSANCE.

Cult Classic: Lonnie Liston Smith and The Cosmic Echoes-Renaissance. Innovative, influential and way ahead of the musical curve, describes the music of Lonnie Liston Smith, and specially the five albums he recorded with The Cosmic Echoes for Bob Thiele’s Flying Dutchman Productions between 1973 and 1976  This began with Astral Travelling in 1973 with Cosmic Funk followed …

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CULT CLASSIC: ORNETTE COLEMAN-FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS: LIVE AT PRINCESS STREET.

Cult Classic: Ornette Coleman-Friends and Neighbors: Live At Princess Street. Nowadays, saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist and composer Ornette Coleman is recognised as one of the founding fathers of the free jazz movement. He released his debut album Something Else in 1958 on the Contemporary label. The flowing year, 1959, he released Tomorrow Is the Question! After …

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