Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral TravelingFor his 1973 debut album as a bandleader, Lonnie Liston Smith assembled a killer band of Cecil McBee on bass, George Barron on sax, James Mtume and Sonny Morgan on percussion, David Lee, Jr. on drums, Badal Roy on table, Geeta Vashi on tamboura, and Joe Beck on guitar. Such a multifaceted ensemble was perfectly suited to explore the spiritual jazz that Smith had encountered while playing with Pharoah Sanders ("Let Us Go into the House of the Lord"

It featured on the band's 1978 album

as Ryser puts it

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transcendence

’Polygon Pulse’ also features the hefty low end that Maceo has become known for

and the slowly strung out

Jivaro’s 1989 masterpiece ‘Saturday Fever’

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throughout its metropolitan spaces and rhythms

they won’t be around forever

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tends to prove magnetic after a few listens