Steve Smith and Vital Information at Musical Instrument Museum

The all-star lineup of keyboardist Tom Coster (Santana / Gábor Szabó), bassist Baron Browne (Jean-Luc Ponty / Billy Cobham), guitarist Vinny Valentino (Bill Evans / Jimmy McGriff), and drummer Steve Smith (Journey / Hiromi / Steps Ahead) serves up a veritable banquet of sounds, from slamming funk and syncopated second-line grooves to seriously swinging, up-tempo B-3 burners, and South Indian‒inspired jams.

Now approaching their thirtieth year of touring and recording since their initial 1983 release, Steve Smith and Vital Information have become a formidable jazz/fusion juggernaut whose longevity surpasses every major fusion group. Over the past thirty years, some of the extraordinary musicians who have toured and recorded with Vital Information include Mike Stern, Dean Brown, Tim Landers, Kai Eckhardt, Larry Grenadier, Jeff Andrews, and Frank Gambale....

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The all-star lineup of keyboardist Tom Coster (Santana / Gábor Szabó), bassist Baron Browne (Jean-Luc Ponty / Billy Cobham), guitarist Vinny Valentino (Bill Evans / Jimmy McGriff), and drummer Steve Smith (Journey / Hiromi / Steps Ahead) serves up a veritable banquet of sounds, from slamming funk and syncopated second-line grooves to seriously swinging, up-tempo B-3 burners, and South Indian‒inspired jams.

Now approaching their thirtieth year of touring and recording since their initial 1983 release, Steve Smith and Vital Information have become a formidable jazz/fusion juggernaut whose longevity surpasses every major fusion group. Over the past thirty years, some of the extraordinary musicians who have toured and recorded with Vital Information include Mike Stern, Dean Brown, Tim Landers, Kai Eckhardt, Larry Grenadier, Jeff Andrews, and Frank Gambale.

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