Now in their 35th year of touring and recording since their initial 1983 release, the current lineup of the group is Steve Smith and Vital Information NYC Edition. This lineup brings together members of all of Smith’s bands: guitarist Vinny Valentino (from Vital Information), pianist Mark Soskin (from Jazz Legacy and Buddy’s Buddies), bassist Baron Browne (from Jazz Legacy, Buddy’s Buddies and Vital Information), with Smith on drums. Steve Smith has won a number of Modern Drummer reader’s polls including “1 All-Around Drummer” fve years in a row. In 2001, he was named “one of the Top 25 Drummers of All Time,” and in 2002 he was voted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame.