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Glossolalia: Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echo

  • The Gallimaufry 26-28 Gloucester Road Bristol, England, BS7 8AL United Kingdom (map)

Glossolalia return to The Galli reworking a selection of Lonnie Liston Smith’s classics with a modern jazz flavour using synthesisers, hip-hop rhythms and improvised solos.

Liston is considered a prominent figure in ‘spiritual jazz’ who, alongside others such as Pharoah Sanders & Alice Coltrane, incorporated elements of spirituality and cosmic consciousness into their music, often through extended improvisations and atmospheric textures.

His records were heavily sampled throughout hip-hop by artists such as Jay-Z, A Tribe Called Quest and The Notorious B.I.G, and are commonly referenced in jazz to this day.

Free entry, music from 9pm. For more information, visit Headfirst.

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