Expansions (Lonnie Liston Smith album)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek stated, "It is fully a jazz album, and a completely funky soul-jazz disc as well ... Smith plays both piano and electric keyboards and keeps his compositions on the jazzy side -- breezy, open, and full of groove playing that occasionally falls over to the funk side of the fence ... Summery and loose in feel, airy and free with its in-the-cut beats and stellar piano fills, Expansions prefigures a number of the "smooth jazz" greats here, without the studio slickness and turgid lack of imagination. ... The music on Expansions is timeless soul-jazz, perfect in every era. Of all the fusion records of this type released in the mid-'70s, Expansions provided smoother jazzers and electronica's sampling wizards with more material that Smith could ever have anticipated".[2]

All compositions by Lonnie Liston Smith except where noted

1. "Expansions" − 6:04
2. "Desert Nights" − 6:42
3. "Summer Days" − 5:50
4. "Voodoo Woman" (Smith, Michael Carvin) − 4:20
5. "Peace" (Horace Silver, Doug Carn) − 4:15
6. "Shadows" − 6:20
7. "My Love" − 5:43

• Lonnie Liston Smith − piano, electric piano, electronic keyboard textures
• Donald Smith − flute, vocals, vocal textures
• Dave Hubbard − soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto flute (tracks 2-4, 6 & 7)
• Cecil McBee − bass
• Art Gore − drums
• Michael Carvin − percussion, clavinet, drums (tracks 1, 2 & 4, 6 & 7)
• Leopoldo Fleming − bongos, percussion (tracks 1-4, 6 & 7)
• Lawrence Killian − congas, percussion (tracks 1-4, 6 & 7)