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Live Around The World: Where We Come From Tour 1998-1999
By Steve Smith
Label: Intuition
Released: 2000
Track listing: Disc 1
Vital Information: Live Around The World: Where We Come From Tour 1998-1999
by Todd S. Jenkins
It’s always refreshing to hear good fusion and contemporary jazz groups in live performance, away from the sometimes chafing studio glister of their recordings. This collection is an especially valuable treasure, documenting a spellbinding tour by one of fusion’s hottest supergroups. The members of Vital Information consistently astound listeners with their seasoned intuitiveness and mind-boggling virtuosity. ...
Vital Information: Live Around the World: The 'Where We Come From' Tour 1998-1999
by Scott Andrews
Drummer Steve Smith (Journey, Stanley Clarke) founded Vital Information in the early 80s. With Frank Gambale on guitar (Jean-Luc Ponty, Chick Corea), Tom Coster on organ (Billy Cobham, Santana), and Jeff Andrews on bass, Vital Information returned to the style of their 60s and 70s fusion and instrumental rock influences like Miles Davis, and The Meters, ...
Ivory Expedition
By Tom Coster
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 1998
Track listing: You Said;
Magic Moments;
I Give My Heart To You; Angels Have Wings; The Dragon; The Prince;
Can't You Stand It;
Ciao; Zulu Queen;
Caravan;
Gigu; Till We Meet Again;
Caught In The Act;
Ivory Expedition;
Monkey See Monkey Do;
I Give You My Love;
Sacrifice At Dawn;
Journey's End.
Vital Information: Where We Come From
by Ed Kopp
There have been some excellent groove-heavy jazz releases this year, most notably from Joey Baron, John Scofield, MMW and Galactic, but Vital Information's Where We Come From may be the best of the bunch. This one offers 77 minutes of intense rhythmic fusion that's loosely influenced by the Meters and Booker T and the MGs.
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