Lonnie Liston Smith

Lonnie Liston Smith Jr. (born December 28, 1940) is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with such jazz artists as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of albums widely regarded as classics in the fusion, smooth jazz and acid jazz genres. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lonnie Liston Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.