Vital Techtones

Guitarist Scott Henderson moved from his native South Florida to Los Angeles in 1980, and formed the group Tribal Tech in the mid-'80s with bassist Gary Willis. Their jazz fusion output grew increasingly harder-edged, especially with the additions of keyboardist Scott Kinsey and drummer Kirk Covington in the early '90s, but Henderson still had a restless need to experiment. Solo blues CDs Dog Party (1994) and Tore Down House (1997) satisfied his fascination with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King; all-improvisational Tribal Tech discs Thick (1999) and Rocket Science (2000) sho...