Lonnie Liston Smith

As if you needed yet another reason to make your way down to U Street this weekend, we're going to give it to you anyway. BC proudly presents one of contemporary music's most versatile musicians. In a career that spans some 25 years, Lonnie Liston Smith has been headlined in a variety of recordings as a featured sideman for some of Jazz music's most ILLUSTRIOUS leader's before stepping out to reveal his own original concepts as a bandleader in the mid 70s. Lonnie made several contributions to the work of artists of the time such as Ethel Ennis, Betty Carter, Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Max Roach and Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Miles Davis. He is a keyboardist of the first rank and has influenced a generation of young players who have acknowledged his rhythmic (swing), harmonic acumen and composing skills. Early in his musical career, Lonnie learned about the magical, healing power of music. Since that impressionable time, he has cultivated a rich musical mosaic which he hopes has helped to expand the consciousness, and raise the moral values of Planet Earth's humanity.

Fri, 11/11 & Sat, 11/12
8:30p & 10:30p

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