SMITH, LONNIE LISTON

SMITH, LONNIE LISTON. Jazz keyboardist (28 December 1940 in Richmond, Virginia). He came from a musical family. His father, Lonnie Liston , Sr., sang with the Harmonizing Four, a spiritual-singing quartet; a brother, Ray, sang with The Jarmels; and another brother, Donald, sang with Lonnie's Cosmic Echoes. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Richmond, Virginia, and at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland (B. Mus., 1963). At college he played tuba in the band,...