| Expansions | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes |
| Cover: | Expansions (Lonnie Liston Smith album).jpg |
| Released: | 1975 |
| Recorded: | November 25 & 26, 1974 |
| Studio: | New York City |
| Genre: | Jazz-funk[1] |
| Length: | 39:12 |
| Label: | RCA/Flying Dutchman BDL1-0934 |
| Producer: | Bob Thiele, Lonnie Liston Smith |
| Chronology: | Lonnie Liston Smith |
| Prev Title: | Cosmic Funk |
| Prev Year: | 1974 |
| Next Title: | Visions of a New World |
| Next Year: | 1975 |
Expansions is an album by keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith, featuring performances recorded in 1974 and released by the Flying Dutchman label the following year.[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".
All compositions by Lonnie Liston Smith except where noted