Scott Henderson | THE Jazz Rock Guitarist

[@doloopPi]

I absolutely agree with you. Extremely versatile 🎸

[@kevincorrigan7893]

I'm a HUGE Scott Henderson fan! Get him on the channel!! Do it, Scott. :)

[@adamhowemusic283]

He's a great blues player but he was a Jazz Fusion God. One of my all-time favourites - love every single one of his records.

[@brettgarsed]

If I could fly anywhere in the world to hear one musician it'd be Scott. I first heard him on Jeff Berlin's "Champion" album and it changed my life. I was lucky to get to know him while I lived in LA and he's a wonderful person as well as being one of the worlds greatest guitarists and composers. Thanks for covering him here Andy, he truly deserves much more attention.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Thanks for this Brett...I'm also singing your praises here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2PXhKGZgKh4jqs

[@carlharvey6461]

The "Giant Steps" cover by VTT that you referenced is a good example of a point I made regarding another of your posts; i.e., that the top fusion players, rather than lowering the level of viruosity (as some jazzbos like to contend), in fact raised the level of instrumental virtuosity over their 'pure' jazz counterparts to truly nosebleed heights.

[@WarhawkBeyond2040]

Love Henderon's Tribal Tech stuff and his solo work, i've seen him 3 times, once with Tribal Tech, once with Jeff Berlin and Dennis Chambers & once with his own trio. He is an unbelievable guitarist and has a distinct sound, when you hear him, you know straight away who it is. I still say to this day that his playing with the Elektric Band was his absolute best even though he wasn't with them very long but he played a big part in helping to shape their early sound. Scott Henderson is one of the greatest guitar players on the planet.

[@25dbz-ot9br]

Love Scott. Plays with passion and intensity. Overlooked is his compositional sense. He’s composed some monster tunes with Tribal Tech.

[@jazzpunk]

Henderson & Willis...great composers! Stuff like "Outskirts" & "Mango Prom" from DR. HEE. Fantastic!

[@richab88]

Couldn't agree more. He has it all and is immediately recognizable

[@frankierodriguez8661]

Thank you for the praise for Scott, he is not only the most amazing guitar player but an extremely funny fella. if you bring him you'll see. truly a giant.

[@MrMaynardWR]

Living in Los Angeles I have had the opportunity to see him play in small venues and he is one of my favorites. Nice guy too. Glad you covered this mercurial character.

[@denesisdelcorockschool3074]

Scott is an absolute monster. I attended Musicians Institute in 90/91. My girlfriend was his roommate at the time and he would be writing and jamming all the time at home. what treat to be able to hear that. Loud!!! Saw him live many times. Shockingly good.

[@denesisdelcorockschool3074]

I should Scott is an amazing teacher as well. I'm a drummer and I attended a counter point class that he was giving at the time. He was so lucid and concise,it made perfect sense. He is a super funny guy too. I was fortunate to see Tribal Tech with Joey Heredia. They were astounding and Joey's drum solo was the best I've ever seen. And i am not a fan of drum solos. I agree Tribal Tech are/were the greatest jazz/rock bands of our time. If not ever.

[@RogerWyatt365]

I've ALWAYS liked Scott. Bout time someone finally gave him his props

[@justinludeman8424]

This was very educational and enjoyable, Henderson's guitar books are a deep source of ideas, digestible theoretical insights and awesome lines. Awesome to see talent like the amazing Brett Garsed in the comments, he deserves much respect; a great player indeed. Thanks 🖖🏼🇦🇺

[@gcustis]

I’ve met Scott , a friend of mine made his speaker cabinets ( Kerry Wright) . So Kerry and I would go see Scott at LA clubs and Scott would always greet us after the show with, “ sorry you saw that show” ,he was always self deprecating. We on the other hand would be, dude that was amazing, if you made mistakes we certainly didn’t catch them. Scott Henderson is the man and he is a teacher as well. Know you have to see a Michael Landau solo show, another master guitarist, and another Kerry Wright cabinet user.

[@GCKelloch]

Absolutely agree. Mcglaughlin was my first fusion hero. Then came Holdsworth. Then I discovered avant-garde guitarists Bill Frissell and Elliot Sharp, and Henderson still does it for me.

[@davewaterford281]

Thanks for the chat about Scott Henderson, was aware of him and will check out his Tribal Tech stuff. Keep it up Andy. 🎸

[@frankfertier34]

Henderson, my hero, discovered him five years ago, long after Holdsworth; his blend of influences is unparalleled. Thank you Andy for soon reviewing the later albums (Dog Party, Tore Down House, etc...........)

[@RobinB84]

You need to get Scott on the channel!

[@sjbang5764]

Andy, your videos on Scott Henderson and his various bands is essential viewing! Congrats on a job well done, I've enjoyed each and every one. By the way, I couldn't agree with you more, Mr. Henderson is the precise definition of brilliant.

[@shanenesic2484]

Thanks for this video Andy, Scott is one of my absolute favourites as well.

[@Fender73472]

Yes, people mover, torn down house, Vibe station great music

[@ashevilleguitar]

I was at Musician’s Institute when Scott auditioned to get in, we all knew he was great even then. We use to go watch him play in a cover band in a small club in the San Fernando Valley playing mind blowing solos over tunes like Super Freak 😂

[@lozruston2204]

Ahhh...Scott Henderson, I find it really hard to get past him and listen to anyone else some days.

[@wagstaff6135]

Best thing about living in L.A. , to me, is getting to see Scott Henderson or Mike Keneally live with some frequency! I love the cds, but the live shows more. Liquid and flame in equal measure for Scott!

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Mike Kenneally will be make a little guest appearance on my up and coming video about Phi Yaan Zek

[@wagstaff6135]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I saw you worked with him Phi Yaan Zek's record... be great to have him on the channel. Love that guy!

[@ganazby]

Ye Gods, take pity on us poor mortals, and send the mighty Scott to Andy’s channel. Amen.

[@erikheddergott5514]

Will have to see him again!

[@davestephens6421]

Love The Immigrants.....From Venice To Vienna!!! Beautiful!!! Classic Zawinul.......

[@rolfjamne8922]

Bravo , i hope Scott is listening🙏🤘

[@lefujyou]

I totally agree ❤the way he can go from one thing to another and mean it! Is like no other 🫨☮️❤️✨

[@nonchai]

Dr Hee is damn good too - early phase - late 80s

[@nonchai]

Fantastic choice! - I studied with him at MI in 86-7. A huge inspiration and educator to me. It took *him* to get me to finally, reluctantly, learn and really get down , internalise and play all that melodic and diminished scale/mode theory stuff. Whether jazz, fusion - or ( reluctantly for me, dragging me kicking and dragging heels... to... ) rock and blues...and all that "tone shit"... what with his love of the 70s classic axemen - specially Ritchie Blackmore, he's the man. ( Just wish he wouldn't use that "Hendrix chord" quite so often... )

[@katskillz]

He is phenomenal. I saw him at a little seedy club in North Hollywood 20 years ago. It was almost too much. As a drummer I just mostly sat stupified at what kind of journey he was taking us on with the guitar, there was so little recognizable harmonic structure in straight jazz or rock in themselves. It was just something else.

[@katskillz]

It wasn't Tribal Tech, but Kirk was on drums. Good golly, seeing those single strokes in person was something else. Was I motivated or demoralized? ; )

[@MrFabriziolapiana]

great video!totally agree!Scott is a legend!

[@NiceGuyJK]

Who do we want? Scott! When do we want him? Now! If he agrees, please ask him about his new record he talked about in Sept. 2022 and had to put the final touches on. Not heard anything since.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

I will....

[@feralsanders]

Blood Ulmer is to Ornette Coleman as Scott Hederson is to Henry Threadgill. Astounding.

[@arnaudb.7669]

Great video. Love Scott Henderson!

[@Passion535]

OK! "But do you like him"? That's the question? Now here's something I want to say.. I love guitar greats, I've been listening to them since the 60's. Hendrix is like one of maybe 2, 3, 4 or so real fantastic players that I really got into. Some or most have passed on, or changed coarse on their styles, so the only one I've still been listening to is Hendrix, until someone told me about Scott Henderson? Now, it's like "the sixties are starting over again"! I barely got to know Allan Holdsworth, now he's gone too. I feel like a Kid again, since I found Henderson! Keep bringing it forward, I want to hear more! Thanks!!

[@naderzekrya5238]

For my desert Island I'd take "Vibe Station" + "People Mover" - his general musicianship matured on these

[@johannhauffman323]

Would love to hear Scott on a video with you Andy. Love his playing with Victor. Can’t believe it is so long ago, feels like yesterday.

[@T1fixFelix]

Yesss he's the best.

[@richardflanagan3491]

Thanks, only found Scott recently. Your right brilliant bloke. Great channel. Cheers

[@alanmatthew5713]

Scott is AWESOME!! There used to be a video of him jamming with Yngwie, who throws his Strat down in frustration. I'd really love for you to do a segment on the very GROSSLY underrated Carlos Rios, whose solo on "Brother To Brother" is one of the most amazing guitar solos ever.

[@johnreilly9748]

YEAH! He is great just saw this vid! Was away from computer for awhile. Saw Scott once with his blues band but wish I had seen Tribal Tech. HBC stuff is great as well!

[@mohammednazam4644]

Players is a BRILLIANT album

[@jazzpunk]

I have the PLAYERS LP...stashed at mom's. Haven't heard it in years. Wish the cd was readily available.

[@geoffccrow2333]

I saw tribal tech live. With donati on drums.I left about 3/4 through. Honestly how many more guitar notes could he play that he hadn't already played. But yes was amazing.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

that quote from Amadeus comes to mind

[@francis-808]

Great work, Andy. Would you consider doing a video on James ‘Blood’ Ulmer?🥴

[@erikheddergott5514]

Thick is definitely a Record I have to have. Thanks!

[@nelsono4315]

Scott is a beast! Period

[@jazzpunk]

The early Tribal Tech albums, especially DR. HEE (my 1st TT album)...whew! Love that line-up with Brad Dutz (percussion) & Bob Sheppard (sax). Crank up the title track! A word about Kirk Covington. I was not too sure about him early on...but, man, a couple albums later, his playing just kicked ass. Check out his band, Cpt Kirk. Kinsey's solo album is carrying the Zawinul torch.

[@jazzpunk]

Specifically, the Kinsey album is NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE

[@RobTeeJr]

I'm a fan of Scott Henderson and I like to think that had Jimi Hendrix lived and collaborated with Miles Davis that he (Jimi) would have ended up sounding like Scott Henderson.

[@FunkyDigo]

100%

[@jazzpunk]

VTT...great! How 'bout HBC? Henderson-Berlin-Chambers. Remember when Henderson did SoT? You shoulda been on there for that!

[@williamking7420]

IMO Tribals tech self titled CD was their best. That was when they were coming into their own definitive sound as a band. Besides I have an autographed copy of the CD which makes it extra special for me. 🙂

[@VintageBassArchive]

Scott is underrated, i have the finest quality of his israel 1995 solo on my channel with 1.4k views Right before you started this video someone commented on my channel explaining gary willis's pre-gwb1 bass for the israel 1995

[@stevescott200]

I remember the first time I heard his playing, on a Jean-luc Ponty album Fables, the track "Cat's Tails", probably played the song 10 times, because I couldn't believe what I was hearing, pretty much the same reaction that I had when I heard "devil take the hind most" that feeling of "WTF"

[@kerrybarnes7289]

Andy if you get a chance have a listern to this band they are great.. UZEB is a Canadian jazz fusion band from Montreal, Quebec who were active from 1976 to 1992

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Yes...I know them, nice bass playing if I recall

[@jbognap]

My Mt. Rushmore of guitarists: Beck, Holdsworth, Metheny, McLaughlin, Scofield, and Henderson. Ok, that's 6, so sue me. 😅

[@VintageBassArchive]

I explained the inspiration for the big wave on the album's wikipedia

[@colinburroughs9871]

I'm sorta new to Tribal Tech's stuff (well not that new, but new enough). Awesome stuff. Probably not for everyone, but then again what is? A great blend of things going on in that music. I should look into other stuff Scott Henderson is doing.

[@mohammednazam4644]

Andy, do you no have the CD of the first CCEB album? It has an extra track with SH on it, and it's one of THE best things I've ever heard. It's called Silver Temple. Also - SH is one of my all time fave players. I love everything he did up until the 5th TT album, after which things developed in a way that wasn't for me.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Hi Mo....yes I have heard Silver Temple, why was it not on the original?

[@mohammednazam4644]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I think there were two reasons - vinyl had to be kept to a certain length for optimum sound quality but they also has extra tracks on the CD's so more people would buy CD's. I think this album was '86 so still quite early on in the CD age. In fact, I suspect that the fact that it had extra tracks on the CD (I think there might have been two?) sort of forced me to get a CD player! Great album. Still my face CCEB album. I also really love the first three TT albums. The tunes, playing and production are superb.

[@rembeadgc]

Yes, Scott is a giant. Loved his earlier stuff more because of the more melodic playing. He never truly sounded like Allan but, the closer he sounded the more I liked. Obviously for me, Holdsworth would be my desert island jazz rock guitarist. Loved Scott's playing on Jeff Berlin's "Champion" album. Scott's heart seems more "rocky" than "jazzy". Not my cup of tea.

[@Tomzmetal]

Once again, Andy. CARLOS RIOS IS STILL ALIVE. It's the second video I hear you talking about his death...

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

OMG....I got that one wrong!! Sorry

[@jazzpunk]

That's great news. Once upon a time, I ran with a guy that played in a HS garage band with Carlos.

[@Tomzmetal]

​@@AndyEdwardsDrummer, I'm glad that I could bring some good news then ;) By the way - I love this video. I've seen Henderson trio twice, in a small club located in my hometown of Szczecin, PL. Let me say that Scott is totally cool, funny, and down to earth. Just a nice dude wearing old loose jeans and a baseball cap. But most importantly, he is an outstandingly adventurous player, even during a gig with the audience of 50-60 people. When I approached Scott, I told him that this "Captors" solo from the first Vital Tech Tones was one of the best things I had heard in my life. He laughed a little bit and explained politely that he didn't remember that solo. And I can't blame him, cause I'm sure that If he were to play this tune live, he would come up with something that would blew me away even more. A ghost of a roided up, jazz sniffing Hendrix would come up, Larry Coryell would raise from the dead. Something along those lines.

[@terrapin323]

Dig it. Hot take: 90s Holdsworth is the best Holdsworth

[@Fender73472]

He did not like his experience in the Chick Corea band from what I’ve heard?

[@craigtodd8297]

Scott get your ass on here. Ahem, I mean please.

[@ianbuxton8332]

OK Andy, please invite Scott Henderson. Prior to u, I'd only ever vaguely heard of him, because as u rightly observe, jazz-rock -- the genre, did indeed take a precipitous nose-dive into blandly fuzak mediocrity during the 1980s. (Mind u I considered Steps Ahead to be not only innovative but pretty EXCITING sometimes!)

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Sometimes! i really like Steps, the first album...

[@VintageBassArchive]

Chuck loeb on the roland synth, peter erskine filling it in with DRUM

[@VintageBassArchive]

Pools 1985 and pools 1986

[@VintageBassArchive]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer have you seen the synth guitar 1986 version of pools? Video on youtube is uploaded by their old backstage engineer.. i asked mr Dennis for a source download link but he didn't reply. pools is the most insane stuff Victor bailey ever did, etc

[@ianbuxton8332]

@@VintageBassArchive Yeah Peter Erskine could be pretty MEAN sometimes; some WICKED offbeats!

[@floraldrivedreams7003]

Ditto, ditto, ditto . . .

[@FOXTROTSKYOMEGA]

Beam me up Scotty ...

[@alimuhammaduthman6393]

I am expecting a review of the new Avenged Sevenfold album,everyone is saying that it is the best prog album in recent times

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Ok...I might do that

[@darrylking5543]

WHAT ABOUT FRANK MARINO IS A BAD MAN TOO.

[@mattf9076]

Rocket Science just took the #1 spot for me, of course Thick is #2.

[@jazzpunk]

DR. HEE for me... :-)

[@craigtodd8297]

I might have pressed dislike by mistake. Which is absolutely the opposite to what i was going to do. Good education again thanks.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

It was you!!!!

[@craigtodd8297]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Sorry. Love you man.

[@Fender73472]

Great player does not like to tour in America Because people do not appreciate his art and musicianship sad 😔