I'm a jazz guitarist, composer and recordist. I also taught jazz at the University Of The Pacific and Consumnes River College. I own a recording studios - Henry's Place a tracking facility out of my home. My band is The Henry Robinett Group, which has been in existence in one form or another since 1985. We released 5 CDs.  The latest, "I Have Known Mountains" is the 5th in the series but without the group. I also play with The Capital Jazz Project.  In addition I'm active in producing various artists across the stylistic spectrum. 

I've taken a lot of my inspiration from my late cousin,  jazz great Charles Mingus. I lived and studied with him briefly in the mid-late 70s.

On this site I will put things up, all unfinished works in progress, unless I indicate otherwise, to either show what I'm working on or to give an overview.  We're working on a couple of CDs.  There's a wide variety of material, so I don't know whether it will become two or three different CDs, straight ahead jazz, my more accessible material or what. Many of the pieces here I have no plans to release on a CD. But it's good to get some feedback or just a feel for what folks are listening to. 

On another note, as I'm sure there's enough music here to upset everybody. Part of the pleasure of being a guitarist who plays jazz is being exposed to a wide variety of music in the popular idiom.  And frankly I love all genres. Part of my uniqueness, if there is any,  is being willing and able to play at most styles.  I don't consider my more "accessible" elements selling out, because I really like them, and I still play everything in my own style, rather than trying to cop anyone else either compositionally or guitaristically. What's more what personally drives me crazy is the narrow minded, musical fascism; almost a form of musical bigotry, that an artist has to stay within the confines defined as X or that anything but X is invalid as an art form worthy of ones attention.  The timbre of guitar and music has changed over the years. I like to explore it all. 

I believe part of an artists responsibility to is write what he hears and play what he imagines, if he likes it, regardless of other peoples considerations or pressure, one way or the other. If I only did straight ahead jazz or only did funk or only rock, I'd be dishonest.

Guitarist, composer and improvisor in New York City

I am just a guy who started playing guitar late in life once he found out he could no longer hang out at the gym all day. I always wanted to play the guitar even as I took my 3 years of piano lessons back when I was 12 years old. Almost 30 years later, I bought a MIM Strat and a Fender FM212 and started playing. I love 80's metal and some 90's Metal/Grunge, Blues, Jazz, Pop - just about any genre with good guitar playing and beat.  I plan to eventually jam with other musicians once my life is not quite so busy with family and work. That day may never come because most of us have one shot in our youth and that's it.  I had my shot and did other things so now I want to salvage what time is left if I can. Either way, I just love playing my guitar and learning new songs - and that by itself is rewarding. One day, I hope to be able to improvise freely like Jazz players do. That will take some time, if I ever get there.... For now, I will keep posting songs until the page is full, and will be posting some more Jazz and Blues as well as Hard Rock/Heavy Metal/Grunge.

I love 80s music, especially AOR, Melodic Hard Rock, Glam Metal, New Wave, Synth Pop, and Synth Wave. This page is a mix of various musical projects I’ve done over the years and a good representation of my progress learning to record and mix myself.

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