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For Steve Smith, named one of the top 25 drummers of all time by Modern Drummer magazine, life is about balance. Musically, the 63-year-old virtuoso is a longtime member of Journey, one of the ...
Steve Smith: Drummer For All Seasons. by R.J. DeLuke July 20, 2015. Drummer Steve Smith has traced the history of jazz drumming--pretty much most of American music drumming--in his storied career that ...
Steve Smith was a jazz drummer before he played with Journey, the hugely successful pop-rock band he joined in 1978. He plunged back into jazz after leaving the band in 1985, touring and recording ...
Drummer Steve Smith is in the midst of a flurry of activity in advance of the 30th anniversary of his jazz group Vital Information. The first VI album appeared in 1983, even as his tenure with the ...
When drummer Steve Smith and his jazz/rock fusion band Vital Information perform at The Railyard in Scranton on Thursday you can expect to hear some arrangements from “Time Flies.” ...
Journey turns 50 in 2023 and kicks off the celebration with "Freedom," its first album in 11 years. Neal Schon reflects on Steve Perry and the legacy. Texas flooding death toll rises to 32 as ...
To anyone who came of age during the early 1980s, weened on MTV and Casey Kasem's Top 40 and weekends at the mall, Steve Smith was a recognizable if somewhat anonymous icon. Dark-haired and ...
But Journey was merely a side stage act to Smith’s more jazz-oriented playing with his own band, Vital Information, which is celebrating a 40th anniversary this year.
Steve Smith tops Modern Drummer magazine polls, conducts drum clinics and, three weeks ago, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But he’s just like you, Mr. Aspiring Drummer, in one ...
For Steve Smith, named one of the top 25 drummers of all time by Modern Drummer magazine, life is about balance. Musically, the 63-year-old virtuoso is a longtime member of Journey, one of the ...