It is not like Herbie Hancock was teaching at my school. There were teachers that helped me understand concepts that I needed to know, but not one that directly influenced the way I play now. I never had a teacher that I was directly influenced by. I learned the most from just listening to records. If you want to learn what they are playing, you really need to sit there at home with the records and check it out. SH: I learned the most from transcribing Zawinul's music off his records while I was playing with him because I did not want to seem like an idiot bothering him with questions like, "what do you play over minor 7 flat 5? You do not want to go there with the bandleader. I would go to a cord and ask, "how does this sound? and they would say, "that's great! no matter what it was.ĪAJ: Who is the most influential teacher you had or who you studied with? Everyone was really stressed and in a hurry to get recording, and Smith and Wooten did not want to sit there waiting while I thought about cords, they were saying "let's play, let's play. I do not think it was my best writing it was kind of like boot camp in the studio. I had never been in a situation where I had to finish writing a tune in an hour and then they would record it. For me, as a picky writer, if I take the time to write out the music I feel more confident that it should be out there. We went into the studio for 10 days with nothing and I had never done that in my life. It was more Steve Smith who had a meeting with Mike Varney and said if there were a guitarist and bassist I would like to play with it would be Victor Wooten and Scott Henderson, so let's get those two guys to record with me. SH: That was the first time I was ever shoved into an experience like that. Other sideman gigs made me feel limited on my own creativity.ĪAJ: What is it like to play with other musicians in your community of music genre? Like when you played with Steve Smith and Victor Wooten on both Vital Tech Tones I and II? Playing with Zawinul was the only time I did not feel painted into a corner. The bandleader needs something that you do, but normally it is just a small part of what you do. A lot of times when you get a role as a sideman you are put into a little niche. SH: Most of my sidemen experiences were not what I thought they would be. Also, John McLaughlin is not just a guitarist he has also created a whole big world of music that I really enjoy listening to.ĪAJ: Who have you played with that has really influenced your playing and composing? For me, when you are listening to someone's composition that really tells you what they're into. I played with Joe Zawinul of Weather Report, and he and Wayne Shorter are my favorite composers, not just improvisers. I listen to jazz, but more modern jazz like Weather Report and John McLaughlin. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, but guys that are dead, like Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, Albert Collins, mainly influence me, those are my favorite blues players. SH: I grew up playing blues so that is my main influence, the blues of the '60s. There is a message board with a multitude of gear questions for any gear nerds.ĪAJ: What are your biggest musical influences?
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All this information is in full exact detail, "vomit inducing" detail on my website at for all the tech heads out there. Scott Henderson: I play John Suhr guitars exclusively and then I play different amps, like a Suhr OD100 and sometimes I just use Marshall amps, and an array of distortion pedals. AAJ had a chance to sit down with Henderson and ask him some questions on his style.Īll About Jazz: Let's start with the type of equipment you use. This two-CD set showcases many of his vast compositions all done live, and yes it is worth not just a listen but seeing with your own eyes. Henderson's latest album, Live, is an excellent representation of his style at work. It was not until he formed his own fusion band, Tribal Tech, that his own unique styles of bending sounds into jazz compositions really reach a new audience. Soon after graduation he moved to Los Angeles where he quickly started getting gigs with notable performers like Chick Corea, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, and Joe Zawinul.
Henderson studied guitar in his native state at Florida Atlantic University.
Henderson's early musical influences of rock and blues transcends through his hard-hitting jazz compositions. Any jazz lover who believes the boundaries of musical genres can't melt together to influence the technical development of improve-based music needs to take a listen to guitarist, Scott Henderson.
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