Vital Information is made up of drummer Steve Smith, guitarist Frank Gambale, keyboardist Tom Coster, and bassist Baron Browne with Special Guest saxophonist Bill Evans.
Vital Information has released 10 recordings and toured the world for 20 years. The band just completed a tour of Europe that took them to Russia, England, Holland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Spain. Bill Evans has 13 solo CDs to his credit (his SOUL INSIDER CD was nominated for a Grammy last year). Bill Evans tours Europe every year but it has been 17 years since he has last toured the States.
Bill has long been one of my favorite sax players and we have talked about playing together for years," says Steve Smith. We had Bill play with Vital Information during our engagement at Catalina's Bar & Grill in Hollywood, CA in 2002 and it went over so well that we decided to take the combination on the road this year. Bill's music and our music works very well together so we will be playing a combination of music from our collective repertoire including Bill
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