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Brushes DVD "DVD of the Month"

The Art of Playing with Brushes, from Hudson Music, has been named "DVD of the Month" by the UK drum magazine DRUMMER. Click here to read the review!


Vitalization RELEASED! Check it out in the NEW Steve Smith Store...

Click here to read the extended and unedited liner notes for Vitalization and watch preview videos featuring Steve and Tom Coster, plus a promo video by Vinny Valentino! And click here to open the NEW Steve Smith store!


Steve to teach at 2008 Drum Fantasy Camp!

Steve will join Dave Weckl, Horacio Hernandez, Derico Watson, and Jamey Haddad for four days of master classes, concerts, jams, and hanging out!

Click here to learn more about drumFantasy.08!


Steve Smith's "Vital Informer"

Read the latest version of Steve's e-Magazine, with lots of stories, photos, and more. Click here!


Video Interviews Added

A three-part streaming video interview with Drummer's Digest (Sweden) has been added to the Drum Talk page. Click here to open the page.


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New "Tala Wands" Released

Steve Smith has helped to develop a new Vic Firth product that many drummers may find useful: Tala Wands, featuring a foam core and two different woods, birch and bamboo, to get different sounds and feels. Read the story....


The Steve Smith Interactive Timeline

Follow Steve's career from his first drum kit to his latest projects, illustrated with more than 60 images...updated into 2008!

 

 

Jazz Legacy DVD Press Release

Click here to read the official press release about the new DVD "Drum Legacy: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants."

This title comes out later this Spring!


New Brushes DVD

Click here to read about this MD readers poll favorite and to purchase it directly from Steve! He'll even sign it for you!


Sonor 30th Anniversary Kit

Click here to read about this special set of drums. Only 100 will be made!

 


Live VI footage and interviews added!

Click here to see new live footage and interviews with Vital Information at the Britt Festival!


New MySpace Pages!

Steve Smith has joined the MySpace revolution with three interactive pages - all included in the "Steve Smith MySpace Ring." Click the MySpace icon (below) to open the Vital Information page. From there, you can reach Steve's personal page and the Jazz Legacy page. Each features audio and video content and the opportunity to add Steve as a friend.


NY-based Guitarist Vinny Valentino
Joins Vital Information in July 2006

Vital Information is pleased to welcome the talented guitarist and composer Vinny Valentino as the newest band member. Following a triumphant performance at Yoshi's Jazz House in Oakland, the quartet plays at Seattle's Jazz Alley later this year; be sure to check out the VI tour page for dates and times...

Plus, read a little more about the new kid in the band...

Steve Smith will also be performing around the world with the newly-christened Steve Smith's Jazz Legacy in September and October. Visit Steve's On Tour page for more...

Take a look back in this two-decade retrospective of Frank Gambale's years on the road, around the world and in concert with Vital Information...

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