{"product_id":"lonnie-liston-smith_expansions_2025_soc","title":"EXPANSIONS","description":"Lonnie Liston Smith's \"Expansions\" is one of the most influential records ever released, with its sound ricocheting across many different music scenes. It’s one of the building blocks of dance music and an anthem for the UK club. Today we celebrate its 50th anniversary with a super high-quality deluxe vinyl edition of the album. Using the original master tapes for the album, we went to Frank Merritt’s East London studio, The Carvery, for an all-analogue cut of the album – it’s never sounded this good! We've housed it in a gloss laminated gatefold sleeve, which lets Jack Martin’s original painting shine like never before. We also have a fully illustrated sleeve note by Frank Tope, telling the story of how the record travelled across the universe from its spiritual jazz root to become a club anthem. This story is told with the help of Gilles Peterson, Norman Jay and others. The album as a whole is essential, moving beyond the danceability of the title track, through its seven tracks, to be one of the great jazz albums of the 70s. Produced by Lonnie and Bob Thiele (producer of Gil Scott-Heron’s ‘Pieces Of A Man’ and John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’), it should be in every record collector's collection.","brand":"Lonnie Liston Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55312591585624,"sku":null,"price":20250411.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0029667025317.jpg?v=1769712401","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/lonnie-liston-smith_expansions_2025_soc","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}