Scott Henderson (born August 26, 1954) is an American

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and ke ...

and

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the ...

guitarist best known for his work with the band

Tribal Tech Tribal Tech was a progressive fusion band, originally formed in 1984 by guitarist Scott Henderson and bass player Gary Willis. From 1993 forward the band included Scott Kinsey on keyboard and Kirk Covington on drums, and released ten albums tha ...

Tribal Tech

Henderson formed

with bass player

Gary Willis Gary Willis (born 28 March 1957) is an American bassist and composer known foremost as the co-founder (with Scott Henderson) of the jazz fusion band Tribal Tech. Aside from his work in Tribal Tech, Willis has worked with numerous other jazz music ...

in 1984. Under the direction of Henderson and Willis, Tribal Tech became one of the most highly regarded fusion bands of the 1980s. During the band's initial run until their dissolution following the 2000 album ''Rocket Science'', Henderson brought himself to the forefront of modern jazz/fusion guitar playing. In 1991 he was named '#1 Jazz Guitarist' by Guitar World magazine, and in January 1992 he was voted best jazz guitarist in Guitar Player magazine's Annual Reader's Poll. Tribal Tech reunited and released an album entitled ''X'' in 2011, but in June 2014, Henderson posted on his message board that the band would again be dissolving.

Other work

Since 1984, Henderson has taught at the

Guitar Institute of Technology Musicians Institute (MI) is a private for-profit music school in Los Angeles, California. MI students can earn Certificates and – with transfer of coursework taken at Los Angeles City College – Associate of Arts Degrees, as well as Bachelor ...

, which is part of the

Musicians Institute Musicians Institute (MI) is a private for-profit music school in Los Angeles, California. MI students can earn Certificates and – with transfer of coursework taken at Los Angeles City College – Associate of Arts Degrees, as well as Bachelor ...

in Hollywood, California.

Discography

As leader
Tribal Tech Tribal Tech was a progressive fusion band, originally formed in 1984 by guitarist Scott Henderson and bass player Gary Willis. From 1993 forward the band included Scott Kinsey on keyboard and Kirk Covington on drums, and released ten albums tha ...

* ''

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'' (1985) * '' Dr. Hee'' (1987) * ''

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'' (1990) * ''

'' (1991) * '' Illicit'' (1992) * '' Face First'' (1993) * '' Reality Check'' (1995) * '' Thick'' (1999) * '' Rocket Science'' (2000) * '' X'' (2012)

Solo albums

* ''

Dog Party ''Dog Party'' is an album by guitarist Scott Henderson. A departure from his jazz fusion style, the album explores blues and blues rock, with songs that have something to do with dogs. Reception Allmusic gave the album a positive review, prai ...

'' (1994) * ''

Tore Down House ''Tore Down House'' is an album by the guitarist Scott Henderson, released in 1997. The album contains three instrumental tracks; it includes a cover version of "Continuum", originally a Jaco Pastorius song, and a re-recording of "Same as You", wh ...

'' (1997) * ''

Well to the Bone ''Well To The Bone'' is a 2002 album by fusion/jazz guitarist Scott Henderson. It is his third solo-album, again returning to his blues-roots. It features a re-recording of the Tribal Tech song "Rituals". Track listing #"Lady P" – 7:14 #"Hil ...

'' (2002) * '' Live!'' (2005) * ''Vibe Station'' (2015) * ''People Mover'' (2019)

As Vital Tech Tones - with Steve Smith and Victor Wooten

* '' Vital Tech Tones'' (Tone Center, 1998) * '' VTT2'' (Tone Center, 2000)

As HBC - with Jeff Berlin and Dennis Chambers

* ''HBC'' (2012)

As sideman

Steve Bailey Steve Bailey is an American bassist. He is the chair of the bass department at Berklee College of Music. Career Bailey began playing bass guitar at age 12 and started playing fretless bass after he ran over his fretted Stuart Spector with his ...

, ''Dichotomy'' (Victor, 1992) *

Gregg Bissonette Gregg Bissonette (born June 9, 1959) is an American jazz and rock drummer and vocalist. He is the brother of bassist Matt Bissonette, with whom he frequently collaborates. He has played on albums by dozens of recording artists, including David ...

, ''Gregg Bissonette'' (Mascot, 1998) *

, ''Siblings Dogs in Space Music'' (BMI, 1992) * Jeff Berlin, ''Champion'' (Passport, 1985) *

Tom Coster Tom Coster (born August 21, 1941) is an American keyboardist, composer, and longtime backing musician for Carlos Santana. Early years Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies ...

, ''The Forbidden Zone'' (JVC, 1994) *

Sandeep Chowta Sandeep Chowta is an Indian music director who primarily works in Bollywood and Telugu cinema. He is also the head of Columbia Records in India. He has also sung some of his songs. In 2003, he produced an anti substance abuse documentary, titl ...

, ''Matters of the Heart'' (Sony, 2013) *

Billy Childs William Edward Childs (born March 8, 1957) is an award-winning American composer, jazz pianist, arranger and conductor from Los Angeles, California, United States. Early life When he was sixteen he attended the Community School of the Performing ...

, ''I've Known Rivers'' (Stretch, 1995) *

Carl Verheyen Carl Verheyen is an American musician best known for being the guitarist of Supertramp, the leader of the Carl Verheyen Band, and as a Los Angeles session guitarist. He was ranked ''One of the World's Top 10 Guitarists'' by Guitar Magazine and w ...

, ''Trading 8s'' (Cranktone, 2009) *

Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and ...

, '' The Chick Corea Elektric Band'' (GRP, 1986) *

Dennis Chambers Dennis Milton Chambers (born May 9, 1959) is an American drummer. He was inducted into the '' Modern Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 2001. Early life Chambers was born on May 9, 1959. He began drumming at the age of four years, and was gigging in Ba ...

, ''Groove and More'' (Soul Trade, 2013) *

Gerald Gradwohl Gerald Gradwohl (born 15 April 1967) is an Austrian guitarist who made guest appearances (studio and live) with Tangerine Dream at various points from 1995 to 2007. He attended the J.M. Hauer Music School in Vienna studying classical guitar and ja ...

, ''Tritone Barrier'' (ESC, 2007) *

Virgil Donati Virgil Donati (born 22 October 1958) is an Australian drummer, composer and producer. He holds the drum sticks in the traditional style and is also proficient at the keyboard. Donati formed Planet X with Derek Sherinian and was the band's princ ...

, '' Just Add Water'' (Thunder Drum, 1997) *

Jean-Luc Ponty Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer. Early life Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano. At sixteen, he was admitt ...

, '' Fables'' (Atlantic, 1985) *

Scott Kinsey Scott Kinsey is a keyboardist and member of the band Tribal Tech. He is a 1991 graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Career In addition to playing in Tribal Tech with Scott Henderson and Gary Willis, Kinsey has worked with phila ...

, '' Kinesthetics'' (Abstract Logix, 2006) *

Bernie Williams Bernabé Williams Figueroa Jr. (born September 13, 1968) is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player and a musician. He played his entire 16-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Yankees from 1991 through 2006. ...

, '' Moving Forward'' (Reform, 2009) *

Joe Zawinul Josef Erich Zawinul ( '; 7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to bec ...

, ''Vienna Nights/Live at Joe Zawinul's Birdland'' (BHM, 2005) * Joe Zawinul, ''The Immigrants'' (CBS, 1988) * Joe Zawinul, ''Black Water'' (CBS, 1989)

References

External links

Scott Henderson's website

2015 Scott Henderson Interview on Guitar.com
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