Tal Wilkenfeld has had quite the musical education. As one of the music industry’s most sought-after session musicians, the 32-year-old bassist from Sydney, Australia, has recorded and performed with ...

Tal Wilkenfeld's 2007 debut album was titled Transformation, and although it was an instrumental record made with a handful of New York City's top jazz musicians, the connotation seemed clear. After ...

Who didn’t see it coming? If you witnessed Tal Wilkenfeld in concert with Jeff Beck in the past couple of years and thought of her as the bass player, you were only partly right. Yes, Wilkenfeld is a ...

Australian-born bass guitar wiz Tal Wilkenfeld was barely 20 when she recorded her 2006 debut album, “Transformation,” with such jazz luminaries as guitarist Wayne Krantz, saxophonist Seamus Blake and ...

Bassist Tal Wilkenfeld has led a charmed musical life. "Now that I've done so much playing with people like Jeff Beck, I'm spoiled," she told Rolling Stone recently, right after stepping off the stage ...

Australian Tal Wilkenfeld has been a go-to side player of the electric bass for Jeff Beck, Prince, Mick Jagger and others. She talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her debut vocal album, Love Remains.

On Tuesday, May 5, Tal Wilkenfeld will perform a special live Relix Remote Session on the Relix Facebook page. The show will kick off at 1 p.m. ET on the Relix Facebook page. Previous Relix Remote ...

Some artists emerge slowly, taking years to find their way to public attention; others leap seemingly instantaneously into the public eye. Australian-born, US-based bassist Tal Wilkenfeld has gone ...

To be blessed with such an abundance of talent, vision, and spirit is a precious gift. We are all so very fortunate that Tal Wilkenfeld shares that appropriately bestowed gift with us every time she ...

There is an old cliche that the company you keep says a lot about you. The first time I met bass playing virtuoso Tal Wilkenfeld was at the iHeartMusic festival in Las Vegas when she was with Steven ...

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