Ahhh! A breath of fresh air. A consumate guitaristt. I used to binge everything I could find from The California Guitar Institute. His work with Joe Zawinul and Chick Corea is stellar. This is my personal ear candy and I want more! Peace & Love.
Ah, Tribal Tech, interesting. Fantastic choice! Tomorrow Scott Henderson will play a gig in my hometown, Vienna, Austria, and I will be there together with my offspring, who is 15 and also plays electric guitar. Scott Henderson also played on an album by Jeff Berlin, who played in Bill Brufords band respectivly. And if you know the music of Bruford you will find similar things with Tribal Tech. Cheers!
Nice, you're discovering Tribal Tech! I particularly like when they got drummer Kirk Covington, on the album Illicit. Check out The Big Wave to hear the drums rise to the level of the rest of this :) the album version will sound nicest as the live versions are all like 240p…
Thank you for your reaction ! I love Scott Henderson's playing and Gary Willis does a great job too ! There is another fusion guitar player I love, also with a great rythm section (Steve Jordan on drums, Anthony Jackson on bass). I'd love to see your reaction on it ! Steve Khan - "Auxiliary police" or "Where's Mumphrey". Sure you'll like these !
For an unusual album focusing on Henderson's blues side there is the 1994 "Dog Party", which has some vocals by the drummer, which are written from the point of view of a dog. Here his playing shows his Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Albert King sides. Like Zappa - not serious lyrics, but top class playing. He taught another guitarist worth checking out - Jimmy Herring, who opened for (and jammed with) John McLaughlin on his last U.S. tour. He has a great cover of the Beatles (Harrison) song "Within You And Without You".
If u ever get round to tracking down a beautiful Prince Instrumental b side called Alexa de Paris, then tell everyone this track is a poorer relation to it, though probably influenced by many other tech jazzers as opposed to Prince and Sheila E.
You got me there JP. I was thinking you didn't like it at all! Ha! I love Scott Henderson (who has just released a new album btw). In the eighties he played with Joe Zawinul for a while and I think you can hear the influence.
This was a great album when it came out, but I think the writing on the albums after this became less standard [but good] fusion and more experimental and personal. When Scott got his band (Gary Willis, Scott Kinsey and Kirk Covington) rather than great studio musicians as on previous albums, Tribal Tech became legendary..
Guitarist Scott Henderson has albums under his own name too. He has played with Joe Zawinul (Weather Report), Chick Corea and others, and has taught at California's Guitar Institute of Technology for years. Some of his later solo albums are blusier than this. The next song on this album "Big Girl Blues" is a good example. There ia a lot of great Gary Willis bass playing on the Tribal Tech albums.
I saw the mention of "fusion" in a few comments before watching/hearing and... as sure as I'm sitting here in my PJs and a cup of tea on a cold and windy NE England night outside, I hated it. (I do wonder what I would have thought if I hadn't been primed with that hated word, though...)
I've never heard it, but personally I don't like this kind of jazz-fusion typical of the mid-80s/early-90s. I find it technical and too cold. I feel nothing but bored listening to it.
@@karlsalocks 'Years of listening!' That sounds like a little too much hard work. I like to be engaged on a more visceral level, what's the old saying, 'if it don't fit, don't force it... If something doesn't grab me after a couple of listens, I move on.
@@karlsalocks Big question... My tastes are very varied, and i've actually music from most genres in my collection. From early classical, rennaissance music, up to the current. But I definitely tend to know what I like early on. The thought fo replaying something you don't like, on the off chance you'll eventually find something, i've never really understood. So little time, and so much music to get through :)
