Vital Information
Vital Information is an American band of the fusion jazz. The musical style of the band is to describe today with a combination of funk and jazz. Steve Smith and Baron Browne put under the most illustrated by the electric guitar melodic Done a vital, swinging rhythm that carries the songs dynamically. Tom Coster brings the jazz harmonies, he combines rock music with jazz harmonies. Guitarist Frank Gambale designed the melodic pattern or gave the other instruments in their solo parts basics.
History
Steve Smith, Mike Stern, Tim Landers and David Wilczewski, the founding members of the band, got to know while studying in Boston (USA). From 1983, the group operated under the name Vital Information.
At the time of receiving the first Vital Information album for Columbia Records Steve Smith was the drummer of the multi-platinum band Journey. As compensation for pop-rock group that Smith sought with vital information initially to an open jazz-rock sound. A first pivot marked the third album Global Beat. Additional African musicians as well as reggae and afro -based rhythms They enlisted in the band performance.
1987 Smith occupied the group with Tom Coster, former keyboardist for Santana, Torsten de Winkel, later in the Pat Metheny Group, and Kai Eckhardt, and later with John McLaughlin, new and played the fourth and final album for Columbia with Fia Fiaga one. Due to the influence of two German musicians with whom Smith had toured in 1986, first band in de angle Master Touch, the band since that time also worked with computers. The entry by Intuition Records, a German label, she let them move away relatively again. On Vita Live the bass with Larry Grenadier was occupied for the first time acoustically. In 1997, the album Where We Come from brought a radical change of direction. All " click tracks " were thrown out roots and heavy again played jazz and rhythm and blues. Come on in was marked by Indian rhythms that brought Smith in the sound. Similar to the scatting used the percussionist with the Indian " Konnakol " the voice for Rhytmisieren.