11-30-2009, 12:38 AM
I'd go see Jeff Beck live just for a chance to see Tal Wikenfeld.
Anyone see her solo at the Crossroads festival? Before that show, she was completely unknown. Many attendees were confused, thought the bass player was Beck's teenaged daughter or something.
After her solo, the buzz circulated and now everyone in the jazz/rock/blues scene knows about Tal Wilkenfeld. A bunch of jaded blues fans were knocked out by this hot new bass player from Australia.
Now she's a true phenomenon. like a lot of amateur musicians and blues/jazz lovers, I'm smitten, she rocks my world.
http://www.myspace.com/talwilkenfeld
Widely hailed as "the rising star of the bass guitar," Tal Wilkenfeld first picked up a guitar at the age of 14, in her native Sydney, Australia. She later switched to bass and in May 2006 Tal recorded her first solo album, "Transformation." She was 20, and had been playing bass for only three years. At just 21, Tal accompanied jazz giant Chick Corea on his tour of Australia. One month later, Jeff Beck asked her to join him on a European Summer Tour. The Beck tour culminated at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival. Most recently, she was invited by Warren Haynes to participate in his 20th Annual Christmas Jam, in Asheville, North Carolina. There, she performed with the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, Ivan Neville, and Robben Ford.
Perhaps Tal's remarkable musical gift is best summed up by Jeff Beck, who enthused, "What can I say about Tal Wilkenfeld? How does one describe an astonishing talent? The answer is, you don't. You listen, and watch, as 45,000 people did in Chicago at the Crossroads Festival 2007. I have witnessed special moments in my time, but to see all those "died-in-the-wool'" blues fanatics and guitar freaks go berzzzzerk half way through her solo left me emotional, and that is an understatement. The word proud is barely adequate".
Anyone see her solo at the Crossroads festival? Before that show, she was completely unknown. Many attendees were confused, thought the bass player was Beck's teenaged daughter or something.
After her solo, the buzz circulated and now everyone in the jazz/rock/blues scene knows about Tal Wilkenfeld. A bunch of jaded blues fans were knocked out by this hot new bass player from Australia.
Now she's a true phenomenon. like a lot of amateur musicians and blues/jazz lovers, I'm smitten, she rocks my world.
http://www.myspace.com/talwilkenfeld
Widely hailed as "the rising star of the bass guitar," Tal Wilkenfeld first picked up a guitar at the age of 14, in her native Sydney, Australia. She later switched to bass and in May 2006 Tal recorded her first solo album, "Transformation." She was 20, and had been playing bass for only three years. At just 21, Tal accompanied jazz giant Chick Corea on his tour of Australia. One month later, Jeff Beck asked her to join him on a European Summer Tour. The Beck tour culminated at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival. Most recently, she was invited by Warren Haynes to participate in his 20th Annual Christmas Jam, in Asheville, North Carolina. There, she performed with the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, Ivan Neville, and Robben Ford.
Perhaps Tal's remarkable musical gift is best summed up by Jeff Beck, who enthused, "What can I say about Tal Wilkenfeld? How does one describe an astonishing talent? The answer is, you don't. You listen, and watch, as 45,000 people did in Chicago at the Crossroads Festival 2007. I have witnessed special moments in my time, but to see all those "died-in-the-wool'" blues fanatics and guitar freaks go berzzzzerk half way through her solo left me emotional, and that is an understatement. The word proud is barely adequate".