A 21-year member of the legendary group Tribal Tech, keyboard wizard Scott Kinsey is a world-class improviser and music conceptualist. His unique sounds continue to rapidly evolve with each new project. Scott has been privileged to work with some of the best known jazz musicians including Scott Henderson, John McLaughlin, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Bill Evans, Tim Lefebvre, Matthew Garrison, Dennis Chambers, Robben Ford, Thundercat, Flying Lotus and many others.
Kinsey’s 2019 album, called We Speak Luniwaz, is a tribute to keyboard icon Joe Zawinul (Miles Davis, Weather Report), with whom Scott had a deep and lasting relationship. Before he passed, Zawinul charged Kinsey with carrying on Joe’struly awesome legacy. The album features several Zawinul-penned tunes made famous by Weather Report and the Zawinul Syndicate, as well as some of Scott’s originals.Joining Kinsey on tour will be French bassist Hadrien Feraud (Chick Corea, John McLaughlin); Hungarian drummer Gergo Borlai(Al Di Meola, Nguyên Lê); and Patrick Bartley, Jr. (Jon Batiste, Wynton Marsalis) on saxophones.This powerhouse group has honed their material at the famed Baked Potato jazz club in Los Angeles and across Europe in 2023.
Scott Kinsey has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, Asia, Mexico and northern Africa with Tribal Tech, Human Element and his own groups. He has appeared on six Tribal albums, plus five albums as a leader and many more as sideman. In 2018, Scott was part of the ARC Trio project, along with Borlai and Jimmy Haslip. An expanded version called ARCeology was released in 2022, featuring the trio plus the John Daversa Big Band.