Lonnie Liston Smith- Garden of Peace

Springing off my previous post, I would like to post about something mellow. Lonnie Liston Smith is a pianist known for his blend of jazzy, soulful and funky love songs. During the 70s, he played with famous jazz artists like Miles Davis, but he went on to produce some excellent music of his own later in the decade and in the early 80s. While never reaching commercial acclaim like the artists he worked with, or those who went on to actually sample his music (see Jay-Z's 'Dead Presidents II'), Lonnie Liston Smith has a repertoire of atmospheric jazz that seems to have grown richer as the popular perception of late 70s/early 80s smooth funk has strengthened over the decades. If that sounds a bit remote and confusing, listen to any track from ‘Dreams of Tomorrow’, an LP that might just be described as 'Dreams of Yesterday' for all its deft keyboard and acid-jazz touches, which now ring out with nostalgia. Here is the last song of eight: if I may suggest that you pretend, while Youtube does its thing, that you are pre-internet, pre-compact disc and at the time when Lonnie Liston’s 1983 ‘Garden of Peace’ could be your soundtrack. A slow, special evening of low lighting, relaxing company and a tinkling piano.