Monthly Archives: January 2026
Tribal Tech’s ‘Illicit’: the ‘Heavy Weather’ of the 1990s?
Many 1980s and 1990s jazz/rock bands tried and failed to match Weather Report’s killer combination of catchy melodies, elegant group interplay and cutting-edge improvisation, exemplified by their 1977 masterpiece Heavy Weather. But surely the most successful of the lot was guitarist Scott Henderson and bassist Gary Willis’s Tribal Tech. The LA-based group released four albums […]
Sounds Of Surprise 