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Below, you'll find a compilation of all album reviews done by local KIOS jazz and blues staff.

Last Call CD Review: Steve Smith & Vital Information: Live! One Great Night / BFM

KIOS | By Chris Cooke
Published August 11, 2012 at 10:48 PM CDT

From a veteran rock & jazz drummer and his long standing band, this date really cooks. A CD + DVD package allows the listener to totally enjoy the recorded experience, from 2007 with band members keyboardist Tom Coster, bassist Baron Browne and, guitarist Vinny Valentino, and drummer Steve Smith. Sustained energy and creative interplay persist throughout the recording, featuring adventuresome numbers, "Cat Walk", "Time Tunnel", "Interwoven Rhythms-Synchronus" and a straight ahead burner, "Jimmy Jive". There is a bonus track on the DVD, "Positano", where guitarist Vinny Valentino's artistry shines. Rock fans are probably familiar with Steve Smith's drumming. The total professional jazz drummer was a member of the rock supergroup Journey for several years, from 1979-1985, participating in the hugely popular recordings Escape (Columbia 1981) and Frontiers (Columbia 1983). Steve Smith founded Vital Information in 1983, and since 1985 has performed with a galaxy of "who's who" in pop & jazz music. This is a very solid recording which you will enjoy. For more information you may visit the artist's website at http://www.vitalinformation.com/
 
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Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke has been a voice on radio in Omaha since 1988. While at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, he studied radio broadcasting, history and religion. Working at KVNO-FM, Cooke hosted a weekend adventuresome jazz show on the station in addition to duties as an on-air announcer on overnights, weekends and holidays. He also worked at KBLZ (the then student-run radio station) as well as KYNE-TV, and The Gateway as a reporter.
In November 1992, Cooke signed on at KIOS-FM and has been there ever since. He has hosted the Tuesday and Thursday editions of Jazz in the Afternoon since 1996 and has also hosted Last Call since that year. A long time fan of jazz music, Cooke enjoys talking with the musicians who make jazz music. He has interviewed Horace Silver, Roy Haynes, Wayne Shorter, David Liebman, Airto Moreira, Jessica Williams and Karrin Allyson, to name a few. While not at the station Cooke maintains a web design consultancy business that has served a number of non-profit and music clients for over 20 years.
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