(5% DISCOUNT THRU 5-27-22) Lonnie Liston Smith regards "Cosmic Funk", his second album as a leader, as a transitional release: "Before recording this album, I was still playing with Miles Davis. You can hear some Miles influence. On the following album, "Expansions", I really discovered the Lonnie Liston Smith "cosmic" sound. "Cosmic Funk" was more of a straight jazz album than might have been expected at the time - particularly for one with "Funk" in its title. Lonnie would never really go down that route, although his next release would include one of the most successful of all jazz funk dancers.