June 03, 2019

Virtuoso bassist Tal Wilkenfeld on going solo - I want to do what I am passionate about

Tal Wilkenfeld is a bassist and singer/songwriter who has performed with Jeff Beck, Prince, Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger and Leonard Cohen for more than a decade, and this year she published her vocal debut album. Playing with all these musicians learned her to "just stick with your own instincts and intuition", she tells Rolling Stone in an interview. She started playing with Jeff Beck as a teenager, but she was never afraid of that - "the fear that I experience is the fear of potentially not doing something. I want to pass away knowing that I just went for it, and did what I was passionate about doing".