In 2006, she joined the group onstage at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan in what would be her first appearance on a big stage. If you’re attracted to music or songwriting, there are no other options. Read our community guidelines in full You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. Tal's official facebook page.

“It was hard on [them] because I was super young and they had no idea what was going to happen to me,” she says. And at that moment, every ounce of my being knew that this was going to be me forever. In 2006, she joined the group onstage at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan in what would be her first appearance on a big stage.


“My friends just looked at me and said, ‘You do know that’s That same night, she also met Jackson Browne. Barely 18, Tal Wilkenfeld left Los Angeles for a life as a working jazz musician in the clubs of New York.

And at that moment, every ounce of my being knew that this was going to be me forever.

He then got me up to play, and we just played all night… then he phoned me up and said, ‘Come on over and we’ll take a drive.’ So we went out in a limo and he was asking me my opinion on various musicians – what do I think of this, or that?

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Millennials is a generation who grew up with computers, internet and social networks. Her parents were surprised, to say the least. Read our community guidelines in full “There was me, Josh Groban, and about 10 other people there. I was just so determined – the nasty word would be obsessed – that I wasn’t going to change my mind.
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He then got me up to play, and we just played all night… then he phoned me up and said, ‘Come on over and we’ll take a drive.’ So we went out in a limo and he was asking me my opinion on various musicians – what do I think of this, or that? Her parents were surprised, to say the least. This was going to happen with or without their blessing.“When I decide to do something,” she says, “I tend to be super focused.”She says things like “I was lucky enough to spend time with As a jobbing musician in the jazz clubs of New York, Wilkenfeld met members of The Allman Brothers Band.

But what are you going to do?

“Because I was injured, I couldn’t focus on running,” she says.

Amid the luxury of an overpriced Soho speakeasy, her audience in the capital seems timid by comparison. Unfazed, she locked into the groove of In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed as the musicians around her played the six-minute track for almost three quarters of an hour. “I think the other musicians were excited by me,” she says. So I did. “I think the other musicians were excited by me,” she says.

As the waiting staff of this famous London nightspot work hard to make sure everyone gets the wrong drinks, onstage the sensational musicians seemed detached from the rest of room. Despite not knowing Mick Jagger from the man on the moon, the bassist was an expert when it came to jazz. Tal Wilkenfeld (born 2 December 1986) is an Australian singer, songwriter, bassist and guitarist whose career began performing alongside artists including Jeff Beck, Prince, Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock and Mick Jagger.In 2008, Wilkenfeld was voted "The Year's Most Exciting New Player" by Bass Player magazine readers' choice poll. The night before, in Brighton, Wilkenfeld played in The Prince Albert pub to a noisy crowd of people happy to provide her show with the kind of communal wallop that every good gig needs.