Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes has been played on NTS over 130 times, featured on 125 episodes and was first played on 13 October 2013.

When Lonnie Liston Smith made the transition from sideman to leader in 1973, that was the beginning of a fusion/crossover/post-bop band that he dubbed Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes.